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Small Non-Coding RNAs Can Be Used to Predict
Mar 3, 2014Small non-coding RNAs can be used to predict if individuals have breast cancer conclude researchers who contribute to The Cancer Genome Atlas project. The results, which are published in EMBO reports, indicate that differences in the levels ...
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MIT Chemical Engineers Designed Nanoparticle That Can Deliver Snippets of Genetic Material
Feb 26, 2014Inspired by tiny particles that carry cholesterol through the body, MIT chemical engineers have designed nanoparticles that can deliver snippets of genetic material that turn off disease-causing genes. This approach, known as RNA ...
Tags: RNA, MIT, Gene Silencing, Nanoparticle
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Biological Single-Cell Analyses Is Improved by Statistical Methods
Jan 24, 2014Stem cells can turn into heart cells, skin cells can mutate to cancer cells; even cells of the same tissue type exhibit small heterogeneities. Scientists use single-cell analysis to investigate these heterogeneities. But the method is still ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Biological Single-Cell
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Researchers Have Deciphered The Structure of Part of The Ribosome Found in Mitochondria
Jan 24, 2014Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have deciphered the structure of part of the ribosome found in mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. The scientists were able to benefit from advancements in the field ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Biologists Have Studied The Functionality of a Poorly Understood Category of Genes
Jan 20, 2014Biologists have studied the functionality of a poorly understood category of genes, which produce long non-coding RNA molecules rather than proteins. Some of these genes have been conserved throughout evolution, and are present in 11 ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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How Life Arose From The Chemical Soup That Existed on Early Earth?
Dec 30, 2013One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, was the first genetic molecule to arise around 4 billion years ago, but in a ...
Tags: RNA, origin of life
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DNA Nanotechnology Has Become One of The Great Hopes of Molecular Manufacturing
Dec 23, 2013DNA nanotechnology has become one of the great hopes of molecular manufacturing in which large-scale objects could potentially be assembled from the most basic building blocks, atom-by-atom. Research is slowly revealing that many of the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Editas Medicine Announced It Has Secured a $43m Series a Financing
Nov 27, 2013Editas Medicine, a transformative genome editing company, today announced it has secured a $43m Series A financing led by Flagship Ventures, Polaris Partners and Third Rock Ventures with participation from Partners Innovation Fund. ...
Tags: Editas Medicine, genome editing
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Veritas Bio Received a Patent Related to in Vivo Delivery of Nucleic Acids
Sep 13, 2013US-based biotechnology company Veritas Bio received a patent related to in vivo delivery of nucleic acids from the European Patent Office. Inventor Dr Pachuk noted the allowed claims cover transfecting nucleic acids into skin or muscle ...
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Some Bacterial Cells Carry a Molecular "Suicide Complex" to Kill Themselves
Jan 15, 2013Research has shown that some bacterial cells carry a molecular ‘suicide complex’ to kill themselves in the event of lethal infection by viral parasites. Such ‘altruistic suicide’ prevents or limits viral replication ...
Tags: Lethal Weapon, Bacteria, Suicide Strategy
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ZyGEM Has Signed an Agreement
Nov 30, 2012ZyGEM has signed an agreement to integrate its enzymatic RNA extraction technology into Quanta Biosciences' kits for quantitative PCR. The companies have kept further terms of the agreement confidential. ZyGEM CEO Paul Kinnon ...
Tags: enzymatic RNA extraction technology, clinical technology
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USPTO Has Granted a Notice of Allowance to Silence Therapeutics
Nov 27, 2012The US Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO)has granted a Notice of Allowance(NOA)to Silence Therapeutics for claims related to interfering RNA molecules and lipid complexes used in drug delivery. The NOA,which is issued based on the ...
Tags: Silence Therapeutics, RNAi therapeutics, Silence Company, RNA molecules
