He fell out with the NIH, however, over the issue of patenting DNA sequences called expressed sequence tags.
Nearly identical DNA sequences and biochemical pathways are found in different species, across genera, and even across phylogenetic kingdoms.
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The theory is that big differences come from the way in which certain RNA molecules copy DNA sequences into proteins.
These are synthetic single-stranded DNA sequences that are, among other things, capable of cutting nearby DNA strands in specific places.
Viral DNA sequences by themselves do not appear to pose a hazard, and many have become incorporated into the genomes of plants.
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We all have combinations of DNA sequences at adjacent locations on our chromosomes that are transmitted together from one generation to the next.
GenVault keeps a copy of the rice DNA sequences and plate numbers as a backup if the lab workers fear an identity mix-up.
The researchers have already designed the DNA sequences using software from a company called Genome Compiler, which allows people to easily design genetic sequences.
GenVault keeps a copy of the rice DNA sequences and plate numbers as a backup, in case the lab workers fear an identity mix-up.
Their genetic "bar codes, " based on DNA sequences unrelated to appearance or song, completely overlap meaning that the species cannot be identified from genetic fingerprinting.
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By generating DNA sequences representing all possible routes and mixing them in a test tube, Dr Adleman was able to find the quickest route.
Scientists have known for years that many genes make more than one protein by taking advantage of small DNA sequences within them called exons.
In 2005, the idea of producing 38 DNA sequences was laughable.
Meanwhile, the geneticists were beginning to insist that many Africans and all non-Africans shared closely related DNA sequences that originated only after about 70, 000-60, 000 years ago in Africa.
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She receives back text files filled with DNA sequences and uses a computer program to take these values and correlate them with human traits such as eye color and gender.
To reach their conclusion, Dr Rich and Dr Wolfe studied the DNA sequences of malarial parasites collected from nearly 100 wild or formerly wild chimpanzees born in central and west Africa.
In the issue of Nature that also contains the Human Genome Project's paper on the genome, a team of Rosetta scientists outlined how they refocused the company's technology to figure out whether DNA sequences constitute complete genes.
Ancestry.com has created a sophisticated storage infrastructure for data ranging from ship manifests to DNA genomic sequences.
Next, he synthesised 50, 000 DNA strands with sequences that almost matched parts of the 24 genes involved in lycopene production, but with a range of variations that he hoped would affect the amount of lycopene produced.
His company Cofactor Bio offers a sequencing service to complement its GeneLaser DNA Sequencing Kit, which includes reagents for amplifying target sequences, and DNA Barcoding Kit, for identifying the biological origin of samples (available in editions for fish, fungi, flower plants, and other organisms).
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The new firm, Codon Devices , is aiming to perfect a new technology that would allow scientists to edit sequences of DNA with never-before-seen ease.
And the Salt Lake City, Utah company cites some 3, 000 patents that have been issued on isolated sequences of DNA since 1982 as evidence there is no constitutional bar to patenting genes.
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The very act of isolating sequences of molecules from the much larger DNA molecule transforms them into something useful, the judge said, just like any other industrial process based on naturally occurring compounds.
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Codon Chief Danner and John Mulligan, the founder of Blue Heron, have started an industry trade organization that will prevent misuse by flagging potentially dangerous gene sequences and doing checks on researchers who request DNA transcripts.
Moreover while the authors demonstrated that their IAP assay could not amplify human DNA they did not demonstrate that it could not amplify IAP sequences in prostate tumour tissue.
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By looking for overlaps between these fragments and fitting the resulting contiguous sequences to reference sequences from humans and Neanderthals the team were able to come up with a DNA sequence for most of the mitochondrion, and it was nothing like one that would have been expected from either a modern human or a Neanderthal.
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