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Global Coral Reefs are in Peril
Scientists show that probiotics can help Rising global ocean temperatures are a major threat to coral reefs, but exciting new research published by J. Craig Venter Institute scientists and an international team of collaborators has brought us one step closer to finding a way to protect them by developing a new probiotic to act as a proactive therapeutic. Corals that were treated showed an increased survival rate of 40%. While these results are promising, the team needs your help to...
Ixodes Scapularis Genome Project
On December 3rd, 2008, the NIAID Microbial Sequencing Centers announced annotation Release 1.0 of the Ixodes scapularis genome sequence (GenBank accession ABJB010000000.) This annotation was produced jointly by the J. Craig Venter Institute, the VectorBase Bioinformatics Resource Center with support from the Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT. Annotation release 1.0 was generated by comparing and merging gene sets produced independently by VectorBase and JCVI. Release...
First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell
Genomic science has greatly enhanced our understanding of the biological world. It is enabling researchers to "read" the genetic code of organisms from all branches of life by sequencing the four letters that make up DNA. Sequencing genomes has now become routine, giving rise to thousands of genomes in the public databases. In essence, scientists are digitizing biology by converting the A, C, T, and G's of the chemical makeup of DNA into 1's and 0's in a computer. But can one reverse the...
Dog Genome Published by Researchers at TIGR, TCAG
September 25, 2003 Rockville, MD - Researchers at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) have sequenced and analyzed 1.5X coverage of the dog genome. The research, published in the September 26th edition of the journal Science, asserts that a new method of genomic sequencing, partial shotgun sequencing, is a cost-effective and efficient method to sequence and analyze many more large eukaryotic genomes now that there are a number of...
Rainbow Around The Son Book Chronicles a Mother’s Love and the Mutant p53 Gene
Rainbow Around The Son, a new book by Marlo Gottfurcht Longstreet, is a memoir of her journey after her 11-year-old son Tanner is diagnosed with a Glioblastoma. The book, which is available in paperback and eBook format, became a bestseller on Amazon. Marlo Gottfurcht Longstreet’s world was turned upside down when her son was diagnosed with a brain tumor. That, it turned out was just the beginning. In her raw, emotional memoir, she describes the experience from a loving mother’s...
Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genome.
The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is an abundant primate species that diverged from the ancestors of Homo sapiens about 25 million years ago. Because they are genetically and physiologically similar to humans, rhesus monkeys are the most widely used nonhuman primate in basic and applied biomedical research. We determined the genome sequence of an Indian-origin Macaca mulatta female and compared the data with chimpanzees and humans to reveal the structure of ancestral primate genomes and...
Enable cutting-edge human health and environmental sustainability research
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Genomic and functional adaptation in surface ocean planktonic prokaryotes.
The understanding of marine microbial ecology and metabolism has been hampered by the paucity of sequenced reference genomes. To this end, we report the sequencing of 137 diverse marine isolates collected from around the world. We analysed these sequences, along with previously published marine prokaryotic genomes, in the context of marine metagenomic data, to gain insights into the ecology of the surface ocean prokaryotic picoplankton (0.1-3.0 μm size range). The results suggest that...
New Bioinformatics Hub at UChicago Enables Next-Gen Infectious Disease Research
The most valuable weapon against the next deadly disease outbreak may be data. Scientists aiming to stop or prevent the spread of viral or bacterial pathogens need rapid, comprehensive access to datasets on their genomics, structure, function and more, combined with computational tools to quickly analyze data and make predictions using artificial intelligence techniques. That critical service will be provided by the new Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC),...
JCVI Women’s Center for Transformative Health
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