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A human brain gene has been jumping around our DNA for 40 million years. Scientists just found it in a virus

In 2010, researchers searching through viral DNA stumbled upon something that didn’t belong there. Inside the genome of a ...
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DNA from a human brain gene has turned up in a virus

Unrelated virus. (Heather Davies/SPL/Getty Images) Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies derived from one gene active in human brain cells appear to have taken that ...
University of California

Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning

Twenty-five years ago today, on July 7, 2000, the world got its very first look at a human genome — the 3 billion letter code that controls how our bodies function. Posted online by a small team at ...
BIOENGINEER

Single-Cell Sequencing Reveals Mitochondrial DNA Damage in Vulnerable Parkinson’s Neurons

For the first time, researchers have sequenced mitochondrial DNA from individual vulnerable brainstem neurons in Parkinson's ...
medicine.yale

Reading DNA from End to End

Haoyu Cheng, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
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Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

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Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...