Copy number variation in Schizophrenia
Ever had the feeling you have lost your marbles? According to the Phrase Finder that expression has conveyed a sense of loss, anger, and more recently a lack of common sense or sanity. As it turns out...
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The human genome is the complete collection of over three billion bases in each of our cells. Cancers accumulate multiple changes, or mutations, in their DNA that contribute to the disease by changing...
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In the 1970s a team of archaeologists led by Carl Gustafson unearthed the remains of a single, 3-ton, male mastodon (Mammut americanum, a close relative of mammoths and elephants), hunted and butchered...
View ArticleWhat is Bioinformatics?
Bioinformatics is a relatively new field and as such, many people aren’t exactly sure what “bioinformatics” really is. The NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative defines...
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