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In 1918, people started getting sick. Really sick. A new strain of influenza had arrived, and it quickly spread, becoming a global pandemic that killed millions. Researchers have now pieced together the...

Late detection of poliovirus transmission is one of the greatest risks to polio eradication. Imperial developed a method for rapid detection of polio. Imperial's Vaccine Epidemiology Research Group (VERG)...

Hereditary fusion genes are identified as genetic factors associated with monozygotic twins A fusion gene is a hybrid gene that juxtaposes two previously independent genes. It is a consequence of somatic genomic alterations, including reversion, deletion, and translocation. The first ...

Advance your research. Understand RNA-Seq analyses challenges and solve them yourself. Where? Leipzig, Germany When? October 25 – 28, 2022 Link? https://www.ecseq.com/workshops/workshop_2022-08-RNA-Seq-data-analysis The purpose of this workshop is to get a deeper understanding in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) with a special focus ...

New software developed by Peter Mac and collaborators is helping patients diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) to determine what subtype they have. ALL is the most common...

The rate of raw sequence production through Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) has been growing exponentially due to improved technology and reduced costs. This has enabled researchers to answer many biological questions through "multi-omics"...

Large RNA including mRNA (mRNA) has emerged as an important new class of therapeutics. Recently, this has been demonstrated by two highly efficacious vaccines based on mRNA sequences encoding for a modified version of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. There is ...

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) is being used extensively to measure the mRNA expression of individual cells from deconstructed tissues, organs and even entire organisms to generate cell atlas...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for rapid, effective, and low-cost SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine describe...

Every species, from bacteria to humans, is capable of regeneration. Regeneration is mediated by the molecular processes that regulate gene expression to control tissue renewal, restoration and growth...