Monthly Archives: September 2014

DNA: All about ISRO #39;s Mars Orbiter Mission
DNA brings you everything you need to know about Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and what makes it so special.

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DNA: PM Modi to keep Navratri fast during US visit
DNA: PM Narendra Modi will keep Navratri fast during his visit to the US. Modi keeps fast for all the nine days with only drinking water with a strict adherence to yoga, meditation and puja...

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Fishbowl Teleseminar: Maximum likelihood sequence detection: from DNA sequencing to nano- imaging
Abstract: The basic problem of inferring useful information from noisy data streams appears in several domains such as communications, speech processing, radar signal processing etc. The implement...

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Darkorbit - Time to Say Goodbye PhantasieLoos DE2 i All DNA Member
LESEN BITTE Ich Mchte mich hier mit bei Allen Freunden und DNA Suchtis Die immer mit mir am suchten waren und immer mit mir im Ts gehockt habe, Danke Darfr :* Besonder #39;s ...

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Jai Brooks | DNA
Just made a really quick Jai video since i havent posted anything on here for ages 🙂 Twitter: @33sluke.

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ES Guelma 14/15 | Rendez-Vouz : DNA Est J03 ESG vs Hamra ( 720p )
DNA Est 3e Journe : ES Guelma vs Hamra Annaba - a 16h - Stade Ali Abda Guelma. Esperanza Official FB Page : http://urlz.fr/Ey2.

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come si fa come si fa a credere a un calcio pulito.

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Most organisms, including humans, have parasitic DNA fragments called "jumping genes" that insert themselves into DNA molecules, disrupting genetic instructions in the process. And that phenomenon can result in age-related diseases such as cancer. But researchers at the University of Rochester now report that the "jumping genes" in mice become active as the mice age when a multi-function protein stops keeping them in check in order to take on another role.

In a study published today in Nature Communications, Professor of Biology Vera Gorbunova and Assistant Professor of Biology Andrei Seluanov explain that a protein called Sirt6 is needed to keep the jumping genes -- technically known as retrotransposons -- inactive. That's an entirely different function from the ones scientists had long associated with Sirt6, such as the repairing of broken DNA molecules and regulating metabolism.

"About half of the human genome is made up of retrotransposons," said Gorbunova. "By better understanding why these genomic parasites become active, we hope to better understand and perhaps delay the aging process in humans."

For the most part, retrotransposons remain silent and inactive in organisms' genomes. But once they do become active, these DNA fragments can duplicate themselves and "jump" to new areas of the genome, disrupting the function of another gene by landing in an important part of the gene and changing its DNA sequence information.

But what happens to the Sirt6 proteins that kept the jumping genes inactive in younger cells? The answer lies in the role that Sirt6 plays in repairing DNA damage. Cells accumulate a lot of DNA damage over time that needs to be constantly repaired. As cells get older, Sirt6 becomes busier in taking care of the DNA damage. Gorbunova and Seluanov hypothesized that Sirt6 becomes so preoccupied in repairing DNA damage in older cells that it is no longer available to keep the jumping genes inactive.

To test the theory, the team artificially caused DNA damage in young cells using gamma radiation or the chemical hydrogen peroxide. Once the damage took place, Sirt6 was immediately recruited to the damaged sites of the DNA to do its repair work. Gorbunova and Seluanov found that the stressed cells -- the ones with increased DNA damage -- had a higher rate of "jumping gene" activity, when compared to the other cells. Then, when the amount of Sirt6 was artificially increased in the stressed cells, the retrotransposons did not become as readily active, keeping the genome safe.

"This suggests that supplying more Sirt6 protein might protect older cells from aging," said Gorbunova. "The idea would be to increase the Sirt6 pool so that enough proteins are available for both DNA repair and for keeping the retrotransposons inactive."

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Multi-function protein is key to stopping genomic parasites from 'jumping'

Record number of genomes being decoded, but cost of DNA sequencing might not fall much further, says Illumina president.

Francis de Souza, president of Illumina

Henry Ford kept lowering the price of cars, and more people kept buying them. The San Diegobased gene sequencing company Illumina has been doing something similar with the tools needed to interpret the human genetic code.

A record 228,000 human genomes will be completely sequenced this year by researchers around the globe, said Francis de Souza, president of Illumina, the maker of machines for DNA sequencing, during MIT Technology Reviews EmTech conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

De Souza said Illuminas estimates suggest that the number will continue to double about every 12 months, reaching 1.6 million genomes by 2017, as the technology shifts from a phase of collapsing prices to expanding use in medicine.

The price of sequencing a single genome has dropped from the $3 billion spent by the original Human Genome Project 13 years ago to as little as $1,000, he said.

During an interview, De Souza questioned whether the price would keep falling at that rate. Its not clear you can get another order of magnitude out of this, he said. Instead, he said, his companys focus is now on making DNA studies more widespread in hospitals, police labs, and other industries.

The bottleneck now is not the costits going from a sample to an answer, De Souza said. People are saying the price is not the issue.

Illuminas sequencing machines, which cost as much as $1 million each, are unmatched in their speed and accuracy. But the companys growth has rested sometimes precariously on two curves. One has been the collapsing price of sequencing. The other is the soaring demand from genome scientists and funding agencies.

During the EmTech conference, De Souza said Illuminas success was due to a hard pivot the company made in 2006, when it got into the DNA sequencing business by acquiring Solexa, a U.K. startup, and bet its fortunes on a technology with no sales, that no one knew if it would work.

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More than a year and a half after a Lake Worth armed burglary, Palm Beach County Sheriffs deputies arrested a man through a connection of DNA and an accomplice-turned witness, according to an arrest report.

In February 2013, three men were caught on video breaking into a Lake Worth home and getting away with about $2,700 worth of property including a television, an Xbox, a PlayStation, a skateboard and a projector, the report said. The three were driven away in a black BMW.

One of the men put black spray paint on an outdoor surveillance camera, but indoor cameras caught the movements the men, who had their faces covered.

DNA found on articles of clothing worn during the alleged incident later placed Andrew Crammer, Avalon George and Brandon Castro at the scene. All three men were on camera wearing the articles of clothing that had matching DNA, the report said.

Crammer, 20, was also holding a handgun during the burglary, the report said. He also unmasks himself during the video and the image closely matches his likeness, the report said.

No recent arrest records appear for George or Castro in connection to this incident. Both have previous arrests and Crammer has a previous arrest this year for marijuana possession with intent to sell.

Crammer faces charges of armed burglary and theft of more than $300. He remains in Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $103,000 bail.

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