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Folding, Melting, and Your Friend the Transcriptome

Jan 12, 2007

The early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science sports some interesting open-access research papers today. Clemens Scherzer and colleagues report results of their transcriptome-wide scan to locate blood-based biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease, while Hairong Ma’s team at Caltech detail observations on the folding and melting of DNA in a real-time setting.

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