At the Plant and Animal Genomes conference, a Cold Spring Harbor Lab researcher provided information on an upcoming study of maize regulatory elements.
The goal of the Texas team is to identify methylation signatures that can help with prognosis and be used to develop noninvasive tests to monitor disease progression.
The company has also expanded its current Veracity NIPT to sex chromosomal aneuplodies and twin pregnancies, and plans to offer microdeletion testing next year.
Using two guide RNAs to excise chunks of the genome, an international team identified lncRNAs essential and inhibitory to human cancer cell line proliferation.
Scientists led by the Scripps Research Institute's Benjamin Cravatt have developed probes and a mass spec method to find methyltransferases in human cells.
The funding, which is part of the NIH’s Common Fund, supports high-impact biomedical research that produces new insights into genomics and human disease.
Two Broad Institute teams, led by Eric Lander and Feng Zhang, respectively, have published new papers today in Science on new uses for lenti-CRISPR screens.
Researchers analyzed cytosine methylation profiles for 34 angiosperm plants, considering methylation levels and distribution across flowering plant families.
The authors used a sequencing technique to identify secondary DNA structures, showing that they are more prevalent in cancer genes and may make good drug targets.
Through their combined genetic and epigenetic study of schizophrenia, the researchers have generated a list of genes affected by risk factors for the disease.
The agency will fund research into the mechanisms by which social experiences affect gene function to influence disease in health disparity populations.
