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OCTOBER 27, 2020

A recent addition to the toolkit, RNA sequencing, has been demonstrated to help researchers narrow down disease candidate variants identified first on exome and genome sequencing. A new study from Baylor College of Medicine finds […].

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APRIL 27, 2021

Credit: Nigel Michki Neurons result from a highly complex and unique series of cell divisions. For example, in fruit flies, the process starts with stem cells that divide into mother cells (progenitor cells), that then divide into precursor cells that eventually become neurons.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

The three-year project – led by respiratory medicine expert Dr Timothy Hinks from the Oxford University Respiratory Medicine Unit – will use whole-genome sequencing of around 500 patients with severe asthma, comparing their gene sequences with control subjects who don’t have asthma.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

CopyKAT enables researchers to gain new insights when analyzing solid tumor samples Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON — In an effort to address a major challenge when analyzing large single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new computational technique to accurately (..)

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JULY 15, 2021

ERJ 2021 Single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed a subset of cells that could provide protection from a rare, but severely debilitating and […]. A subset of fibroblasts located in small foci of tissue on the edges of extensive scarring produce a protein that protects against cell aging.

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JULY 9, 2021

Credit: Elisabeth Paymal To splice or not to splice… In an article published in the journal RNA, Karan Bedi, a bioinformatician in Mats Ljungman’s lab, Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School, investigated the efficiency of splicing across different human cell types.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Researchers engineer RNA-targeting compounds that disable the pandemic coronavirus’ replication engine Credit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research JUPITER, FL – Sept.

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