The clinical importance of gene amplification in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer has been widely recognized, as it is often evident in advanced stages of diseases. However, our knowledge of the ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 84, No. 8 (Apr. 15, 1987), pp. 2165-2169 (5 pages) Most small multicopy antibiotic-resistance plasmids of ...
As the human genome gradually yields up its secrets, scientists are finding some genetic events, such as rearrangements in chromosomes, are less random than they had previously thought. Originating as ...
Los Angeles, Calif., June 2, 2011—Researchers in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), together with scientists in Beijing, China, have discovered a chromosomal ...
CRISPR-Cas13 is an RNA editing technique that can alter protein sequences without modifying the genome in a cell. Recent advances in CRISPR-Cas13 technology mean that it can now be used to locate and ...