September 24, 2023

Washington State University: WSU students create database to accelerate skin science

Washington State University: WSU students create database to accelerate skin science. “The website — skinregeneration.org — was created for researchers but allows anyone to cross-compare information on more than 33,000 genes from different species as they relate to skin development, wound repair, and regeneration. Ultimately, it could help scientists reprogram adult skin for regeneration during wound healing and to inhibit the aging process.”

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September 18, 2023

Creamy or Crunchy: Visualizing Food Protein Structures in Wolfram Language (Wolfram Blog)

Wolfram Blog: Creamy or Crunchy: Visualizing Food Protein Structures in Wolfram Language. “Explore protein structures with the new Wolfram ProteinVisualization paclet and the BioMoleculePlot3D resource function. Designed for researchers, educators and all structural biology enthusiasts, the paclet offers an immersive experience for viewing the intricate structures of biomolecules, including proteins, nucleic acids and their complexes.”

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September 17, 2023

Introducing Pebblescout: Index and Search Petabyte-Scale Sequence Resources Faster than Ever (National Library of Medicine)

National Library of Medicine: Introducing Pebblescout: Index and Search Petabyte-Scale Sequence Resources Faster than Ever. “NCBI is excited to introduce Pebblescout, a pilot web service that allows you to search for sequence matches in very large nucleotide databases, such as runs in the NIH Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and assemblies for whole genome shotgun sequencing projects in Genbank – faster and more efficiently!”

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September 17, 2023

Penn State University: Penn State team to triple size of forensic database of mitochondrial DNA

Penn State University: Penn State team to triple size of forensic database of mitochondrial DNA. “In circumstances where potential crime scene evidence such as hair or bone might be old or degraded, forensic scientists rely on DNA from a cell’s mitochondria — an organelle that has its own genome separate from the ‘human genome’ in the cell’s nucleus. Now, the National Institute of Justice has awarded a team of researchers from Penn State $770,000 to sequence the mitochondrial genomes of 10,000 Pennsylvanians. This will more than triple the size of the existing database and provide a crucial point of reference for use in human identification cases.”

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August 30, 2023

AI Weirdness: AI vs a giraffe with no spots

AI Weirdness: AI vs a giraffe with no spots. “Image recognition algorithms are trained on a variety of images from around the internet, and/or on a few standard image datasets. But there likely haven’t been any spotless giraffes in their training data, since the last one to be born was probably in 1972 in Tokyo. How do they do when faced with photos of the spotless giraffe?”

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August 26, 2023

Harvard Gazette: The eye as we’ve never seen it

Harvard Gazette: The eye as we’ve never seen it. “In a culmination of more than a decade of research, Harvard scientists have completed a detailed analysis that could not only light the way to better, more targeted gene therapies for blindness, but also inspire a new appreciation for the vast complexity of human vision. The team, led by neurobiologist Joshua Sanes, has authored a complete catalog of the nearly 160 cell types found across all the structures of the human eye, as well as an inventory of the genes each cell type expresses.”

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March 24, 2023

Leafing Through History: Mining DNA Clues From Centuries-Old Manuscripts (North Carolina State University)

North Carolina State University: Leafing Through History: Mining DNA Clues From Centuries-Old Manuscripts. “Since early 2021, an intercollege, interdisciplinary team of NC State researchers has been using modern scientific techniques to mine genetic clues from old manuscripts. In doing so, they are uncovering traces of the past hidden in the books and shaping future scholarship.”

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March 15, 2023

National Academies: Researchers Need to Rethink and Justify How and Why Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry Labels Are Used in Genetics and Genomics Research, Says New Report

National Academies: Researchers Need to Rethink and Justify How and Why Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry Labels Are Used in Genetics and Genomics Research, Says New Report. “Researchers and scientists who utilize genetic and genomic data should rethink and justify how and why they use race, ethnicity, and ancestry labels in their work, says a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report.”

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March 4, 2023

Horsetalk New Zealand: Database likely to aid parentage testing in Thoroughbreds, identify gene doping

Horsetalk New Zealand: Database likely to aid parentage testing in Thoroughbreds, identify gene doping. “Dr Teruaki Tozaki and his fellow researchers, writing in the journal Genes, said the database they constructed from their findings will provide useful information for genetic studies and industrial applications in Thoroughbred horses. These include a gene-editing test for gene-doping control and a parentage test using insertions and deletions for horse registration and identification.”

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January 14, 2023

PR Newswire: Mars Petcare and the Broad Institute create open-access database of dog and cat genomes to advance preventive pet care (PRESS RELEASE)

PR Newswire: Mars Petcare and the Broad Institute create open-access database of dog and cat genomes to advance preventive pet care (PRESS RELEASE). “Mars Petcare is partnering with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a world leader in the genetic and molecular analysis of diseases, to create one of the largest open access cat and dog genome databases in the world. Genomes from 10,000 dogs and 10,000 cats enrolled in the MARS PETCARE BIOBANK™ initiative will be sequenced over the next 10 years. Insights from the open access database can help advance individualized pet health care for future generations of dogs and cats.”

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September 3, 2022

University of Connecticut: Researchers to Expand the Encyclopedia of RNA

University of Connecticut: Researchers to Expand the Encyclopedia of RNA. “The National Human Genome Research Institute has awarded genomics expert Brent Graveley and his team $5.6-million to continue to work on an enormous encyclopedia of human RNA molecules and the proteins that bind to them. The grant is jointly awarded to Graveley and Gene Yeo of the University of California, San Diego.”

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