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Study Uses Computer Learning to Provide QC for Genetic Databases

July 19, 2016

DNA doesn’t exist in a vacuum: even though every cell contains the entire genome of its host organism, they know how to differentiate, to become part of an eye, or a bone, or a leaf. These differences are related to each cell’s transcriptome—the array of messenger RNA (mRNA) that describe which parts of the genome are expressed as they are translated into proteins.


July 19, 2016


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Illinois researchers build genomic platform to further understand E. coli

August 25, 2015

In August 2015, three children in three separate northern Indiana counties were sickened by Escherichia coli O157:H7, and one of them died.

Bacterial outbreaks like these send public health officials into overdrive as they search for the source of the contamination. Was it undercooked meat, unwashed produce, juice that wasn’t fully pasteurized? Did the children have contact with each other?


August 25, 2015


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