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Human Genome Project Achieves Technological Triumph

...owing them to "read" each gene. "Mapping the human genome has been compared with putting a man on the moon, but I believe it is more than that," said Dr. Michael Dexter, the director of the Wellcome Trust, which funded the British part of the Human Genome Project. "This is the outstanding achievement not on...

PCR emerging as a promising technique for Diagnosing Urinary Tuberculosis

...litating rapid amplification of small amounts of a genome sequence, Dr Narmada P Gupta told the Millennium International Urology Congress in India. Presence of even one bacteria can be detected by the PCR technique, he said, elaborating on the advances in genitourinary tuberculosis. However, in spite of...

Controversial deal on public access of the human genome map

...nc , will soon publish its findings on the human genome project , which is a much talked about topic, considering that the mapping of the genes will enable one to have the information to manipulate individual characteristics like the color of the eye or even skin. It will also help say whether a cell will...

Virus killer

...ts.They also added that the formation on the viral genome could also be used to create drugs for the disease....

Human gene number increases

...d 30,000, the gene number estimated from the human genome sequence seemed scanty compared with the mustard weeds' (25,000) and the fruitfly's (13,000). Michael Cooke and colleagues at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego, California compared the two gene sets and found tha...

Gene clue to antibiotics

A new bacterial genome sequence suggests a route to new antibiotics, and ...our own health. Researchers at the Sanger Centre - genome headquarters - have recently announced the solving of the Streptomyces genome - the biggest and comp...

What we can learn from dogs?

...to human health. What's more, the study of the dog genome and - maybe - the chimpanzee genome, may be able to pinpoint the handful of genes that could be linked to uniquely human diseases. Dogs are particularly useful to study because they share our environment, and they have a similar age and body size r...

Sequencing of the Plague

... a potential biological weapon, has had its entire genome sequenced. The genes seem to be "unusually fluid",...might provide new ways to attack plague. But "this genome displays unusual fluidity," comment Stewart Cole and Carmen Buchreiser in the magazine Nature, where...

Biotechnology on the lead

...against bioterrorism. The completion of the human genome project, and developments in understanding of diseases like anthrax and botulism, will help in developing tests and vaccines that will protect society against bioterrorist attacks - as well as natural epidemics.// The annual meeting of the American ...

Chlamydia toxin- a secret killer

The genome of the bacterium Chlamydia uncovers a toxin that's like that produced by other pathogens, so opening up the way to new treatments. The bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis is the cause of silent infections that can lead to blindness and gynaecological con...

Genes for Vision discovered

...h a huge genetic database from the mouse and human genome project, the researchers identified approximately 300 photoreceptor genes - five times the number that were previously known. Two hundred and sixty four of these were newly identified genes. Of these, 241 had homologs in humans. “This makes photore...

Syphilis uncovered

...nstock, who led the gene mapping study, said: "The genome sequence represents an encyclopedia of information on this elusive bacterium."We can now figure out ways to disarm its defences through vaccines, identify it quickly through new diagnostic tests and eliminate it with specific, targeted antibiotics."...

Hepatitis E virus made impotent

...ts.They also added that the formation on the viral genome could also be used to create drugs for the disease....

Mutating viruses helps produce antibodies

...ller said. They are beginning to examine the human genome for the genetic signatures of this mechanism, as well as yeast and fruit flies. The details of how this mutation process works still are unclear, but unexpectedly it seems to involve an enzyme tied to deadly retroviruses, such as HIV, known as rever...

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...that can move around to different positions on the genome of a single cell -- could have implications for ca...ld have substantial effect on the evolution of the genome and how it's changing." Although they have been linked to some diseases, "they're not a huge contri...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...is research will build on the success of the human genome project and will have scientists looking at nearly 10,000 genes, inactivating one at a time to find out precisely what they do and how they contribute to the development of cancer. They hope// that this effort will ultimately lead to the creation of ...

Scientists open the book of life

...ing private effort, completed a rough draft of the genome in 2000, but the draft included thousands of gaps ... but 400 of those gaps have been closed now. The genome is composed of about three billion pairs of DNA chemicals within 24 chromosomes. The genes that cont...

Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

...r an entire chromosome 10 - about 5 percent of the genome - from healthy cells into the abnormal melanoma cells. The introduction of chromosome 10, which contains the PTEN gene, temporarily switched off the tumor cell growth in mice and allowed apoptosis, or cell death normally occurring in non-cancerous ce...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...tify genes and gene regulatory elements in the dog genome that match those in other mammals. Using this te...phin, for what it would have cost to carry the dog genome to an 8 X fidelity. "We can do more species at lower cost and still annotate [identify] elements o...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...tify genes and gene regulatory elements in the dog genome that match those in other mammals. Using this te...phin, for what it would have cost to carry the dog genome to an 8 X fidelity. "We can do more species at lower cost and still annotate [identify] elements o...

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