RNA-Seq Providing More Clues to Understanding the Mechanism Between Zika...
from HealthDay News – Scientists say they’ve discovered how the Zika virus might cause severe brain and eye birth defects. The Zika outbreak in Brazil and other parts of Latin American and the...
View ArticleRNA-Seq in Space – Release of New Datasets by NASA GeneLab
Germinating Fern Spores Help Identify Genes Involved in Sensing and Responding to Gravity A spore from the fern Ceratopteris richardii During germination, a calcium current is triggered in the fern...
View ArticleUSC patient RNA-Seq data shows potential of ANGLE’s Parsortix liquid biopsy...
ANGLE plc , the specialist medtech company, has announced that the results of the University of Southern California (USC) Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center’s ongoing work with ANGLE’s Parsortix system...
View ArticleRNA-Seq reveals genetic link between two chronic lung diseases
from Yale News by Ziba Kashef – Research on chronic lung diseases has primarily focused on studying conditions, such as emphysema or lung fibrosis, in isolation. In a new study, Yale scientists...
View ArticleUCSF Researchers Discover that Deep Sequencing is Overkill for Many Applications
Ability to Extract Patterns From ‘Low Resolution’ Data Means Deep Sequencing is Overkill for Many Applications, Researchers Say New research by UCSF scientists could accelerate – by 10 to 100-fold –...
View ArticleResearchers use RNA-Seq to assess how a tiny dinoflagellate could have a big...
New research published in Nature by scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology suggests that ingestion of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium...
View ArticleUltrafast RNA-Seq Analysis Tool Could Change How Infectious Diseases Are...
SALT LAKE CITY-Scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine, ARUP Laboratories, and IDbyDNA, Inc., have developed ultra-fast, meta-genomics analysis software called Taxonomer that...
View ArticleUsing big data, scientists discover biomarkers that could help give cancer...
A SURVIV analysis of breast cancer isoforms developed at UCLA. Blue lines are associated with longer survival times, and magenta lines with shorter survival times. People with cancer are often told by...
View ArticleSingle-cell RNA-Seq reveals nerve-insulating cells more diverse than...
Oligodendrocytes, a type of brain cell that plays a crucial role in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, are more diverse than have previously been thought, according to a new study by researchers at...
View ArticleNew proofreading enzyme increases precision and fidelity of RNA sequencing
AUSTIN, Texas — For 3 billion years, one of the major carriers of information needed for life, RNA, has had a glitch that creates errors when making copies of genetic information. Researchers at The...
View ArticleSingle-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals How Zika Virus Causes Fetal Brain Damage
Marco Onorati et al. describe the derivation and characterization, including single-cell RNA-seq, of neocortical and spinal cord neuroepithelial stem (NES) cells to model early human neurodevelopment...
View ArticleLargest RNA-Seq study of its kind identifies three distinct molecular...
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers have identified and validated three distinct molecular subtypes of prostate cancer that correlate with distant metastasis-free survival and can...
View ArticleRNA-Seq reveals strange ‘chimeras’ that defy science’s understanding of human...
The human genome is far more complex than thought, with genes functioning in an unexpected fashion that scientists have wrongly assumed must indicate cancer, research from the School of Medicine...
View ArticleA new University of Pennsylvania effort is bringing RNA sequencing into high...
The goal is to make it easier for science teachers to incorporate the latest advances in science into their curricula. The initiative, Discovering the Genome, was spearheaded by Kristin Field, director...
View ArticleNature Methods names epitranscriptome analysis method of the year 2016
Method of the Year 2016 Our Method of the Year 2016 is epitranscriptome analysis. This Special Feature looks at recent methodological advances that enable transcriptome-wide profiling of RNA...
View ArticleLexogen Research Award – gene expression profiling of low quality or FFPE...
An award for difficult RNA samples. Gene expression profiling using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is empowering an ever-increasing range of researchers to answer highly relevant biological and...
View ArticleRNA-Seq Blog ranked 4th among bioinformatics blogs by Feedspot
Feedspot.com has compiled the most comprehensive list of Top 75 Bioinformatics Blogs on the internet and we’re very proud to announce that their panelists have selected the RNA-Seq Blog at #4 on their...
View ArticleWeill researchers use RNA-Seq to study effects of eclipse
On August 21st, as parts of the United States are treated to a total solar eclipse, astronomers all over the country took part in experiments to try to understand the plasma around the Sun, the Earth’s...
View ArticleEnvisagenics closes $2.35M seed round and launches SpliceCore Platform for...
Envisagenics, Inc., a biotechnology company that applies Artificial Intelligence to the genetic sequence of patients to discover new therapies, announced today that is has raised $2.35M in its seed...
View ArticleResearchers use AI, RNA-Seq to unlock the secrets of the genome
Every nine minutes, someone in the US dies from blood cancer which accounts for about 10 percent of all cancer deaths. And, every three minutes, one person in the US is diagnosed with a blood cancer —...
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