News Source: io9
| about 1 year ago
Now we've entered the age of genomics — the study of what genes do, as well as what they don't. A terrific article by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times gives you a crash-course in cutting-edge genomics research, complete with some gorgeous charts...
News Source: Time of India
| about 1 year ago
New large-scale studies of DNA are causing researchers to rethink the very nature of genes. They no longer conceive of a typical gene as a single chunk of DNA encoding a single protein...There are simply too many exceptions to the conventional rules...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
Back in the 20th century, a gene was such a simple thing: The lone carrier of inherited biological information, a single stretch of DNA that contained the code to create a single protein. But, as is so often the case in science, the more we’ve...