Human genome bombshell

identification and discovery of novel micrornas in the human genome

although more than 98% of the human genome is transcribed, most of these transcripts are not translated into proteins. rather, they are considered as non-coding rnas. micrornas (mirnas) are very short non-coding rnas approximately 22 nucleotides in length which regulate many key processes of cells such as growth, proliferation, differentiation, cell cycle, apoptosis (programmed cell death) and ...

The Human Genome

The Human Genome Project

genetic mapping; DNA; applied research; molecular genetics T Human Genome Project is an international research project whose primary mission is to decipher the chemical sequence of the complete human genetic material (i.e., the entire genome), identify all 50,000 to 100,000 genes contained within the genome, and provide research tools to analyze all this genetic information. This ambitious proj...

The Human Genome Project

In January, Harold Varmus will begin the next stage in an unusual career. He’s gone from English literature to medicine to bench science to Washington science bureaucrat, and now he becomes the well-paid (some would say extremely well-paid) president of a private, not-for-profit treatment and research facility, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He’s succeeded in everything...

Genome Organization/ Human

The human nuclear genome contains 3000 million base pairs (bp) of DNA, of which only an estimated 3% possess protein-encoding sequences. As shown in Figure 1, the DNA sequences of the eukaryotic genome can be classified into several types, including single-copy protein-encoding genes, DNA that is present in more than one copy (repetitive sequences) and intergenic (spacer) DNA. The most complex ...