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Genome Synthesis Technique for Virus Vaccine Development

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2008-06-30 19:55:57 by Michael in Medgadget
...genome that would produce the desired proteins. The technique may lead to practical, systematic methods of developing future viral vaccines. Because of the redundancy of the genetic code, there are an unimaginably large number of ways to encode any given protein. For poliovirus proteins, there are more possible encodings (10 to the 442 power)...
 
Tags: wild-type poliovirus proteins, poliovirus, poliovirus proteins, type, virus, proteins, viral proteins, genome, polio virus
 
 
 
 
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Helicos BioSciences Sequences Entire Genome from a Single Molecule of DNA

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2008-04-04 19:06:19 by Michael in Medgadget
...genome of an organism (M13 virus in this case) by analyzing a single molecule of DNA without amplification. We have initially covered Helicos' technology back in April, 2005 The company reports: The report demonstrates that the tSMS technology can reliably re-sequence a moderately complex genome without the associated errors, cost, and...
 
Tags: dna, dna bases, single dna, individual dna strands, strands, strands serve, single molecule, nascent complementary strands, technology
 
 
 
 
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First Full Female Genome Sequenced

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2008-06-23 23:17:23 by Michael in Medgadget
...genome. Why did it take so long? After all, up until now there have been already four individual genomes sequenced, and all of them male. Our guess is that given the shorter life span and more chronic diseases that men have, sequencing of male genomes was considered a more important endeavor than sorting through the DNA of their longer living...
 
Tags: dna, dna language, female dna, center, genome technology center, male genomes, european union research, male, individual genomes
 
 
 
 
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Cocoa bean (chocolate) genome being sequenced

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2008-06-26 02:13:33 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...genome (DNA) is being sequenced and analyzed as part of a project to help create stronger, healthier cocoa crops. Cocoa, of course s the key ingredient in chocolate. Through the collaboration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), IBM and the world's largest chocolate company Mars, scientists hope to...
 
Tags: cocoa, entire cocoa genome, cocoa bean, healthier cocoa crops, genome, ibm reports, gadgets blog home, gadgets blog, ibm
 
 
 
 
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Human Genome Shirt Gives You Nice AAAS [Fashion]

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2008-02-27 10:55:50 by Mark Wilson in Gizmodo
...genome, Science magazine published an issue featuring a T-shirt covered with the annotated gene sequence map of human chromosome 1. Now the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) is releasing the shirt for all to have. And at just $22.50, nothing says "I understand women" better than having a sizable chunk of their genetic...
 
Tags: shirt, aaas, human genome, genetic sequence spread, science, science magazine, gene sequence map, upper body, sizable chunk
 
 
 
 
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The $100 Genome

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2008-04-22 08:00:31 by Michael in Medgadget
...genome for about $100, a serious drop from the current cheapest $60,000 method. Most existing technologies detect the sequence of DNA a single letter at a time. But Complete Genomics aims to speed the process by detecting entire "words," each composed of five DNA letters. Drmanac likens the technology to Google searches, which query a...
 
Tags: five-letter dna segments, dna segments, dna, cheap dna synthesis, dna molecule, dna letters, letters, five-letter dna combinations, sequence information
 
 
 
 
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Synthetic DNA in The Lab

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2008-01-24 20:00:47 by Michael in Medgadget
...genome consisting of 582,970 base pairs. This is the first time that a full sequence for life has come out of a lab. Well, surely only God knows what this technology could lead to. The building blocks of DNAadenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thiamine (T) are not easy chemicals to artificially synthesize into chromosomes. As the...
 
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BehindTheMedspeak: Identical Twins Aren't

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2008-05-19 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Genome Research Institute, the group that financed the government project to decode the human genome: ''Most of any one person's DNA, some 99.9 percent, is exactly the same as any other person's DNA. (Identical twins are the exception, with 100 percent similarity That, we now know, no longer appears to be the case The Bottom Line: Identical...
 
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An Interview with Navigenics

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2008-07-28 18:26:23 by Josh in Medgadget
...genome to drive prevention strategies early in life The goal of Navigenics is ultimately to provide an individual (and their physician) with a holistic assessment of their genetic predispositions to disease. The vast majority of disease burden in the world is caused by chronic diseases - also called complex genetic diseases - which have a...
 
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