News tagged with mammalian genome


Cellular bells: Key step in manufacture of red blood cells decoded

A healthy adult must generate as many as one hundred billion new red blood cells each day, to maintain the numbers circulating in his blood. A team of EPFL researchers has identified a key step in the process by which red ...

Medical research created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Search for epigenetic decoder leads scientists to Rett Syndrome

(Medical Xpress)—A few years ago, scientists discovered an unexpected layer of information woven into the genetic code – a nucleotide called 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, or 5hmC. Its meaning was unknown at the time, but a ...

Medical research created Dec 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers find model system to study promising cancer drug

Researchers have found that the budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is an acceptable model system to study KP1019, an anti-cancer drug that uses ruthenium, a rare metal, a new study found. Researchers had previously been i ...

Medications created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Non-coding antisense RNA can be used to stimulate protein production

While studying Parkinson's disease, an international research group made a discovery which can improve industrial protein synthesis for therapeutic use. They managed to understand a novel function of non-protein ...

Genetics created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene regulation through non-coding RNAs

A number non-coding RNAs are transcribed in humans but their role in the human body has not been elucidated. European scientists are deciphering the role of such RNAs in a newly discovered imprinted human ...

Genetics created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0