The CRISPR-Cas9 Report Card
By Rajaneesh K. Gopinath, Ph.D. How did the genome-editing tool, regarded as one of the revolutionary breakthroughs of the century, fare thus far and what’s its future? The Discovery …
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By Rajaneesh K. Gopinath, Ph.D. How did the genome-editing tool, regarded as one of the revolutionary breakthroughs of the century, fare thus far and what’s its future? The Discovery …
Read MoreJérôme Lejeune (June 13, 1926 – April, 3 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist. Dr. Lejeune proved that chromosome abnormalities are related to inherited diseases, and discovered that Down …
Read MoreA research team at the California Institute of Technology developed a method for the partial automation of DNA sequence analysis using fluorescence labeling. The method was published in Nature in …
Read MoreThe whole genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was completed and published in the journal Nature in June 11, 1998. The M. tuberculosis has approximately 4,400,000-base-pair containing nearly 4,000 genes. In …
Read MoreSir James Young Simpson (June 7, 1811 – May 6, 1870) was a Scottish obstetrician and an important figure in the history of medicine particullary in anesthesiology. Simpson first introduced …
Read MoreJust as the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting ended yesterday in Chicago, hundreds miles away from Chicago the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) is having the 2018 …
Read MoreAmerican geneticist and molecular biologist Phillip Allen Sharp (June 6, 1944 – present) co-discovered that genes in eukaryotes contain introns instead of being contiguous strings. Dr. Sharpalso found that the …
Read MoreAmerican biologist Douglas Hanahan studied the transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmids, and developed a more efficient technique. The result was published in the Journal of Molecular Biology on June …
Read MoreJerzy Władysław Jurka (June 4, 1950 – July 19, 2014) was a Polish-American geneticist and molecular biologist, best known for his discovery of the major families of Alu elements. The …
Read MoreThe American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) hosts the 2018 Annual Meeting in the McCormick Place Convention Centre in Chicago, IL, on June 1-5. By Joanne Shih The meeting attracts more …
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