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When the sequencing of the human genome was announced two decades ago by the Human Genome Project and biotech firm Celera Genomics, the sequence was not truly complete. About 15% was missing: technological limitations left researchers unable to work out how certain stretches of DNA fitted together...
Laboratoire de Biome´trie et Biologie Evolutive, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France The production of genome sequences has led to another important advance in their annotation, which is closely linked to the exact determination of their content in terms of repeats, among which are transposable elements...
You’ve sequenced genomes of very long-lived animals such as the bowhead whale, which lives up to 200 years. How are their genes different from ours, and what can we learn from them? Various long-lived animals, such as humans, whales and elephants, all have to cope with the same issue...
The Human Genome Project is often compared to the achievement of putting humans on the moon. Launched in 1990 by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, the project took 13 years and, at the time, around $3 billion to complete. By 2000, scientist...
To see how medical geneticists are learning how to read genomes, I went back to Boston to see Robert Green, the doctor who had originally invited me to get my genome sequenced and fall down this deep rabbit hole. I met Green at his office at Harvard Medical School with his colleague, Ma...
"We've sequenced the hell out of it" The team used brown rats, commonly used in lab experiments, as the modern reference species, and found they could reconstruct 95 percent of the Christmas Island rat genome. That may sound like a big success, but the five percent they couldn't recover...
You do not need to have sequenced the whole genome of two creatures to get a general sense of how related they are. As a matter of fact, scientists were already putting together predictions on how closely related humans were to other animals long before any genomes had even been sequenced....
Stunning advances in gene research and data mining will predict diseases and devise treatments tailored to each of us.
All 19 students had previously completed an intro- ductory course.20 All students in the advanced course were eli- gible to elect to have their genome sequenced—at no financial cost to them—as part of the course, as long as they attended the first session. Questionnaires were administered...