News tagged with transcriptome

Transcriptional barcoding of retinal cells identifies disease target cells

(Medical Xpress) -- By developing a large scale gene expression map for retinal cell types, FMI Neurobiologists have been able to identify the cells in the retina, where the genes causing retinal diseases ...

Neuroscience Jan 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Researchers reveal digital transcriptome of breast cancer

GW Cancer Research Team in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, published a study that is the first of its kind to use mRNA sequencing to look at the expression ...

Cancer Feb 14, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Tumors evolve rapidly in a childhood cancer, leaving fewer obvious tumor targets

An extensive genomic study of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma reinforces the challenges in treating the most aggressive forms of this disease. Contrary to expectations, the scientists found relatively few recurrent gene ...

Genetics Jan 20, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Gene expression in mouse neural retina sequenced

The population of Eric Morrow's seminar "Neurogenetics and Disease" comprises mainly undergraduates who were skipping down the halls of their elementary schools when the first drafts of human genome sequences were published. ...

Genetics Dec 07, 2011 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0 |

The influence of the mother: Maternal epigenetic inheritance

(Medical Xpress) -- A study published in Genes and Development from scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research pinpoints the importance of maternal epigenetic influences during ...