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10,000 years of crop cultivation by our Neolithic ancestors have played a major role in determining the crops make up our staple diets. Researchers used Illumina sequencing to unravel the history of...
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SciMon: The Making of Science Mondays. As we decided to venture upon this journey to reveal to the world the importance of genomics we were stepping into uncharted territories. These are a few sneak...
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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is responsible for nearly 1.5 million deaths annually. Infected individuals are asymptomatic for months, which is responsible for worldwide expansion of this pathogen. Researchers...
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Honeysuckle tea, a well-known traditional Chinese medicine, is used to treat lung ailments. Researchers have identified a miRNA as the active ingredient in honeysuckle that targets influenza A viruses....
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Due to the poor safety and efficacy of current drugs, new treatments for African trypanosomiasis are required. Sleeping sickness is caused by the parasite, trypanosome brucei that can cross the blood-brain...
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Research has demonstrated the effects of famines on pregnant women, specifically the impact of malnutrition on epigenetic changes in the fetal brain. Transgenerational information is thought to be transmitted...
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Single cell sequencing provides first hand high resolution genotypic and phenotypic data of every single cell and its response to its microenvironment. Although a major constraint to sequencing single...
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Over 40% of drugs on the market target G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Sequencing has helped identify lipid sensing taste receptor GPCRs. Smell and taste receptors represent the huge family of...