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Microarray technology is a general laboratory approach that involves binding an array of thousands to millions of known nucleic acid fragments to a solid surface, referred to as a “chip.”
… as a “chip.” … Microarray Technology, Genes, DNA Sequence, RNA, DNA, Laboratory Experiment … Microarray technology is a … to as a “chip.” The chip is then bathed with DNA or RNA isolated from a study sample (such as cells or tissue). …
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A repressor is a protein that turns off the expression of one or more genes.
… genes. … Gene, Gene Expression, Gene Regulation, Messenger RNA (mRNA), Protein, Transcription … A repressor, as related … of the gene(s), which prevents the production of messenger RNA (mRNA). Repressor proteins are essential for the …
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (abbreviated DNA) is the molecule that carries genetic information for the development and functioning of an organism.
… Thymine, DNA, Double Helix, Deoxyribonucleic Acid, RNA … El ácido desoxirribonucleico (ADN) es la molécula que …
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An exon is the portion of a gene that codes for amino acids.
… for amino acids. … Intron, DNA Sequence, DNA Expression, RNA, Genes, Genetic Code … An exon is a region of the genome …
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A promoter is a sequence of DNA needed to turn a gene on or off.
… Enzyme, Gene, Gene Expression, Gene Regulation, Messenger RNA (mRNA), Transcription … A promoter, as related to … of DNA upstream of a gene where relevant proteins (such as RNA polymerase and transcription factors) bind to initiate … of that gene. The resulting transcription produces an RNA molecule (such as mRNA). … A promoter is a sequence of …
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A virus is an infectious agent that occupies a place near the boundary between the living and the nonliving.
… Acid (DNA), Enzyme, Protein, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) … A virus is an infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat. A virus cannot replicate …
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Thymine (T) is one of four chemical bases in DNA, the other three being adenine (A), cytosine (C), and guanine (G).
… … Uracil, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), Ribonucleic Acid (RNA), Genetic Code, Nucleotide, Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, …
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Dr. Heidi Parker is an Associate Investigator in the Comparative Genetics Section of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, NHGRI.
… now combining that information with whole tumor sequence, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq to identify not only variants that cause … Branch. … domestic dog, cancer genetics, genomics, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Ostrander lab, morphology, canine breed …
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NHGRI is awarding Genomic Innovator Awards to nine institutions to support the research of 12 early career scientists in the field of genomics. The awards will total up to $27 million over five years.
… molecular composition associated with non-coding DNA and RNA sequences. Jesse Engreitz, Ph.D. Stanford University … personalized medicine, CRISPR, non-coding DNA and RNA sequences, gene regulation, single-cell biology, …
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NHGRI-funded researchers to be honored with Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
… will be awarded for his rigorous and creative work on the enrichment of DNA and RNA sequences based on hybridization kinetics. Dr. Zhang’s … the methodology to selectively retain and enrich DNA or RNA sequences of interest, for example, those that provide …