Sunday 6 July 2014

Researchers Reduce the Size of the Human Genome to 19,000 Genes

How neurons communicate in the brain and how nutrients are metabolised are just some of the messages coded by the 3 billion letters that make up the human genome. The detection and characterisation of the genes present in this mass of information is a complex task that has been a source of ongoing debate since the first systematic attempts by the Human Genome Project more than ten years ago. A study led by Alfonso Valencia, Vice-Director of Basic Research ...

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