The chicken and the genome
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Scientists have analyzed the genetic makeup of chickens, and it is providing valuable information about how human genes work. Washington University Genome Sequencing Center led a group of international researchers
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A new study states that 60% of the genes in chicken have close relations to human DNA. This may not comfort those who frequently eat the creature, but may ponder this the next time they order a batch of chicken wings.
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Prior to these experiments, protein was believed to hold our hereditary destiny. After Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase, DNA steps up to the plate.
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THE enduring mystery of why the chicken really did cross the road has come a step closer to being solved definitively, following a detailed analysis of the birdâs genetic blueprint.
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A group of international researchers at Michigan State University has decoded the genome of the chicken and found that the main ingredient of McDonald&#39;s (NYSE: MCD) Chicken McNuggets has a genetic
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EAST LANSING, Mich. - We may soon be thanking Michigan State University chicken No. 256 for better treatments or even new vaccines for the flu and other human ailments.
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A leading human genome scientist says he has taken a major step towards creating life from scratch in the lab.
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A project is announced to obtain the genetic "barcodes" of all animals and plants on the planet.
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How many genes does it take to make a human? Only about the same number it takes for a small flowering plant or a tiny worm, says a new estimate that&#39;s sharply reduced from just three years ago.
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One thousand people around the world are to have their genomes mapped in an effort to understand how genes influence disease.
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&quot;The chicken genome fills a crucial gap in our scientific knowledge,&quot; says Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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J. Craig Venter, genome scientist extraordinaire, takes his genome analysis to a new level of detail, showing humans are not 99.9 percent similar to each other as previously thought.
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A red jungle fowl is seen in this undated handout photo. Researchers have assembled the genome sequence of the Red Jungle Fowl, the ancestor of all domestic chickens.
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Here's something to ponder when you bite into your next chicken wing: A new study says about 60 percent of the genes in the critter you're eating have close cousins in your own DNA.
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Â· Most intensive study ever of our genetic code Â· So-called junk DNA found to play highly active role
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Interactive, detailed maps of the human brain and genome will spur new discoveries.
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WASHINGTON: Using computer programs, scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental