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Transforming cancer care through genomics
Lorna Rothery spoke to Parker Moss, Chief Partnership Officer at Genomics England about how the organisation’s Cancer 2.0 initiative is harnessing the potential of...
Major breakthrough in genome sequencing can quicken cancer diagnosis
A major breakthrough in genome sequencing could lead to the quicker diagnosis of cancer and rare diseases.
Understanding human DNA sequences can inform scientists about...
Mapping the cannabis genome: developing a genetic blueprint for breeding
A major analysis of statistical data and studies has highlighted the importance of mapping the cannabis genome for unlocking the full potential of the...
Breakthrough epigenomic technology can help to combat disease
Much remains unknown about diseases and the way our bodies respond to them, in part because the human genome is the complete DNA assembly...
An advancement of genome analysis could detect diseases more quickly
Diseases caused by genetic changes could be detected more readily thanks to an advance in DNA genome analysis software.
The development of the genome analysis...
Understanding human health with genome analysis
Understanding human health has been taken to another level as researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and UNSW, Australia, have published a...
Gut microbiota: 2,000 unknown bacteria discovered in the human gut
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger have discovered almost 2,000 bacterial species living in the human gut microbiota, many of which were...
Enzyme function affected by changes in external surface
Research shows changes to enzyme surfaces affects the enzyme function, this being the substrate specificity by modifying how densely it is packed inside.
These findings...
Errors in ‘proofreading’ cause inherited blindness
Mistakes in ‘proofreading’ the genetic code of retinal cells is the cause of a form of inherited blindness produced by mutations in splicing factors.
A...