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Innovative breakthrough promises to diagnose DNA rearrangement mutations Doctors are increasingly using genetic signatures to diagnose diseases and determine the best course of care, but using DNA sequencing and other techniques to detect genomic rearrangements remains costly or limited in capabilities. However, an innovative breakthrough developed by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and the VCU Department of Physics promises to diagnose DNA rearrangement mutations at a fraction of the cost with improved accuracy. Led by VCU physicist Jason Reed, Ph.D., the...

Date Time Superstar of STEM’s genetic analysis helps protect koalas On Australia Day, one of Science & Technology Australia’s Superstars of STEM has unveiled a genetic analysis that could help save Australia’s iconic koalas. Superstar of STEM and DNA Zoo Australia Director Associate Professor Parwinder Kaur, from the University of Western Australia’s School of Agriculture and Environment, said the analysis could help better understand how to protect the beloved iconic Australian species. Associate Professor Kaur said genetic analysis would allow researchers for the first time to visua...

Date Time Gene-editing produces tenfold increase in superbug slaying antibiotics Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics. The John Innes Centre researchers used the technology to create a new strain of Streptomyces formicae bacteria which over-produces the medically promising molecules. Discovered within the last ten years, formicamycins have great potential because, under laboratory conditions, superbugs like MRSA do not become resistant to them. However, Streptomyces formicae only produce the ...

Business, you have the forefront of feeling the tech impact. it's such a powerful impact for everybody, it's been so stimulating for the economy. essentially the people now want to spend on prevention, want to have those services like hair rejuvenation or skin rejuvenation for the extensions, like you mentioned were doing their dna sequencing, understanding how not to get sick and how to prevent that. >> so people are spending money on themselves. and they are feelings of freedom to do that kind of thing that they may not have wanted to do in the past. >> that's music to the whole economy, bec...

>>brian: can grow a liver orchid ni out of a body -- or kidney out of a body? >> these are building block cells. >>steve: where are the stem cells? >> the richest source is in the pulp, nerve, that red section you see there. the hard outer coating which we know of as the enamel is not going to have much organic matter. the best is the pulp and nerve which in john lennon's dead tooth from 50 years ago that his housekeeper had -- and you can see the size of the cavity. it was probably extracted because he was in a lot of pain. >>gretchen: the chances of cloning john lennon from this 50-year-old ...