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Most Recent Genetics Articles.
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Production and Issues of GMOs
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Amna Adnan
GMOs are the organisms which have alterations in their genetic makeup. They can be produced through different processes. They also have some ethical and environmental issues.
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Importance of Transgenic Animals in Human Life
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Amna Adnan
Transgenic animals play an important role in humans' life. They can be used to produce human organs as well as helpful economically and agriculturally.
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Mass Spectrometry For the Identification of Protein
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Muniba Safdar
What is Mass Spectrometer? It is a technique used to identify proteins from a sample. Its principle depends on mass, i.e. less mass of ion more will be the deflection, similarly more mass of ion, less will be the deflection (source of deflection is magnetic field or electric field). Generally, it is used to find molecular mass/mass to charge ratio of ions in a vacuum.
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Edman Degradation - For Protein Sequencing
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Muniba Safdar
What is Edman Degradation method? It is a chemical method used for the sequencing of amino acids in a peptide. This method is developed by Pehr Edman in 1960. In this methods, N-terminal or amino terminal is labeled or cleaved from the peptide and number of residues are identified.
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Process of Gene Cloning and Its Applications
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Amna Adnan
Gene Cloning is the making of identical copies of the desired gene. It has many application in the medical as well as agricultural field.
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What Are Monoclonal Antibodies - Their Synthesis and Uses
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Amna Adnan
Monoclonal antibodies are man made antibodies used against a particular antigen. They have many uses in the medical field.
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2-D Gel Electrophoresis | Analyze Proteins
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Muniba Safdar
What is 2-D gel electrophoresis? The 2-D gel electrophoresis is abbreviated as two dimensional or 2-DE. It is a type of gel electrophoresis (that separates molecules on the basis of their rate of movement through a gel). It is usually used to analyze proteins. Proteins are separated on the basis of two properties by mass and charge in two dimensions on 2D gels.
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Determination of Protein Sequence Via Bioinformatics Tool
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Muniba Safdar
There are various methods through which sequence of protein can be determined. When we talk about finding the sequence of protein we salute Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics has provided us various tools which make our work easier
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Field of Metagenomics: Processes and Applications
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Amna Adnan
Metagenomics is the study of the metagenome, the genetic material directly taken from the environmental samples.
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What is Genetic Code - Its Features and Degeneracy
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Amna Adnan
Genetic code is the ordering of the nucleotide. All the genetic information is stored in the genetic code.
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Proteomics and Analysis of Protein Sequence
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Muniba Safdar
Protein function depends on three dimensional arrangements of amino acids and three dimensional structures depend on length of amino acid,order of amino acid and types of amino acid present in a particular peptides. If we have a denovo protein and we want to find its function, through Bioinformatics Tools we can determine the sequence of protein.
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DNase Foot Printing: Identification of Protein Binding Site of DNA
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Muniba Safdar
What is DNA foot printing? It is a technique used to identify protein binding site of DNA. As DNA exists in a cell in the form of nucleoprotein complex. Proteins interact with the DNA for the protection of DNA. It means there is DNA-protein interaction in the cell. There are specific sites where proteins bind.
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Electrophoresis: SDS-PAGE | A Method of Gel Electrophoresis
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Muniba Safdar
There are various methods for the separation of particular protein in a mixture. Electrophoresis is a non-selective approach defined as a molecule with a net charge will move in an electric fieldSDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, is a technique of electrophoresis.
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Types of Chromatography: Affinity, Gel, Ion exchange and Reverse phase
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Muniba Safdar
Chromatography is any separation technique that distributes the components of a mixture between two phases. Chromatography has various types but in Proteomics 'Liquid Chromatography' is mostly used.
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Protein Quantitation: To Identify Particular Protein in a Sample
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Muniba Safdar
Protein quantitation is a technique of 'Proteomics' in which abundance of particular proteins is identified in different samples. Proteome dependent on environmental condition is very important. To study particular disease, quantity of protein is required.
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What is Genetic Counseling
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Amna Adnan
Genetic Counseling creates awareness in the people for the genetic defects. Genetic counselors are the health professionals who provide guidance to the families about the risks of having any genetic disease.
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Strategies For Protein Identification | Proteome Map
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Muniba Safdar
Various techniques through which proteins can be identified, their advantages and disadvantages. The aim of proteomics (study the full set of proteins) is to identify all proteins and make proteome map. To study particular disease we have required quantity of protein.
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Proteomics: Proteins Expressed by Genome
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Muniba Safdar
Proteomics is the branch of genetics that studies the full set of proteins encoded by a genome. It involves identification of protein in a body and the determination of their role in physiological and pathophysiological (diseased condition) function or conditions. For example in cancer protein is unexpressed.
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The Different DNA Libraries
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Lorato Lekgari
The construction of DNA libraries, their differences and how they are constructed. Metagenomic, cDNA, Genomic DNA library.
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Gene Therapy: Advantages and Disadvantages
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Muniba Safdar
Benefits and issues of Gene therapy: It is a technique in which a gene that is responsible for disease development is replaced with a healthy gene, in other words defective gene is corrected. This is done by inserting number of genes into patient's cells and tissues for the treatment of hereditary diseases.
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How Can Computers Read DNA?
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Farah Mahboob
Ever wondered how that thread like DNA got into your computer? How do scientists analyze it and programmers make robust and sophisticated algorithms that can read the whole Human genome. If you want an answer to all your questions read on and find out how its done.
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Gene Silencing and Its Applications
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Lorato Lekgari
Explains gene silencing. Goes into the mechanism under which gene silencing occurs, its biological roles and different application that it can be used for
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Applications of Human Genome Project
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Amna Adnan
Human genome project encouraged the scientists to map the genomes of other organisms also. Molecular medicine took great advantage of this project.
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How the Mapping of Human Genome Took Place?
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Amna Adnan
Human genome project is the greatest achievement of the 21st century. It provide the scientists an opportunity to determine the function and expression of those genes which are diseased.
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DNA Sequencing: Method, Benefits and Applications
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Amna Adnan
DNA sequencing has provided the scientists to map the genome of many organisms including humans. It has its applications in medicine, forensics and agriculture.
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Transgenic Animals: Methods of Development and Applications
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Amna Adnan
Transgenic animals are the genetically modified organisms in which new genes are inserted to see the expression of the proteins. These animals are developed through different techniques of genetic engineering and have applications in medicine, biotech and pharmaceuticals.
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Phylogenetics: Evolutionary Relationship Among Species
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Muniba Safdar
What is Phylogenetics? It is a field of biology which is used to find relationships among different organisms. Ancestrals are divided into two descendant species because closely related organisms are shown in near branches. If there is too much divergence between two species its mean they are not closely related.
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Plants and Their Genetic Transformation
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Amna Adnan
Plants are the multicellular organisms and genetic transformation in them is quite difficult. For this purpose naturally occurring microorganisms such as bacteria have been used to perform the task.
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Genomic Applications of Microorganisms
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Amna Adnan
Microorganisms are the useful living organisms on the earth. They help to clean the environment by digesting the carbon dioxide, they also help to clean the wastes. Their use in the biotech industry cannot be ignored. By knowing the genetic information of these organisms, the ability of antibiotic resistance can be known.
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Enzymes Used in DNA Manipulation
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Nidhi Uppangala
Enzymes are used in molecular biotechnology or genetic engineering to manipulate biological material DNA. Enzymes like nucleases, ligases, polymerases, Modifying enzymes and topoisomerases are commonly used enzymes to do the job such as DNA manipulation.
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Genetic Testing in Detecting Genetic Disorder
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Nidhi Uppangala
Genetic testing is done to see if an individual is at risk for certain types of diseases like cancer by looking for certain gene mutations. Genetic testing is also used to confirm gene mutation present in an individual or in a family.
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Gene Regulation by Minerals and Vitamins
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Nidhi Uppangala
In humans and also in other animals expression of gene is also regulated by the kind of nutrients present in ones diet. Not only macro nutrients like carbohydrate, proteins and fat play a major role in regulating gene expression but also micronutrients like mineral and vitamins also involved in gene regulation.
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Gene Therapy and Blindness Treatment
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Amna Adnan
Gene therapy has the potential to treat the diseases which cannot be cured with any other method. Scientists are now exploring the possibility of blindness treatment disorder on an advanced level using gene therapy.
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Pregnancy and Chromosomal Abnormalities
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Amna Adnan
Women possess chromosomal abnormalities when they exceed the age of 30. These abnormalities result in causing many syndromes like Down's syndrome, turner's syndrome and Klinefelter syndrome.
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Viral Vectors Used in Gene Therapy
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Amna Adnan
Gene therapy is a technique of genetics which is responsible for replacing the diseased gene with the healthy genes. There are specific viral vectors which are used to insert therapeutic genes in the human body. every specie of virus acts in a different way.
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Genes Responsible For Infantile Hemangioma - The Most Common Childhood Tumor
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Nidhi Uppangala
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, and the de Duve Institute at the Catholique University of Louvain in Brussels, have for the first time, found the genes involved in the growth of the tumors known as infantile hemangiomas.
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Childhood Cancer Neuroblastoma and Genetics
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Nidhi Uppangala
For the first time scientists have discovered the gene mutation, which is responsible for childhood cancer called as neuroblastoma. The same gene mutation also plays a major role in non-inherited form of the disease
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Benefits of Cloning
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Amna Adnan
Cloning is a technique of producing organisms which are similar in genetic makeup to their parents. Cloning can be beneficent in treating different diseases. Cloning benefits include helping infertile couples and also helpful in organ transplantation.
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Techniques of Genetic Engineering
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Amna Adnan
Genetic engineering techniques like Microinjection, Bioballistics, Recombinant DNA Electro and Chemical poration are used for various purposes for example for the treatment of diseases, for the insertion of gene from one organism's cell to another. They are of great benefit to the field of biotechnology.
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Genetic Engineering Helps to Improve Plants Tolerance, Produce and Resistance
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Amna Adnan
Genetic engineering has made it possible to produce such foods and other plants which are rich in nutrients. Usually some genes are added to them to make them genetically modified.
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Regulation of Gene Expression by Dietary Fat
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Nidhi Uppangala
Dietary fat act as a source of energy and also play a vital role in the maintenance of cell membrane lipid composition, dietary fat in addition to all these roles also induce effects on gene expression, hence may also change metabolism, growth and also cell differentiation.
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Sex Chromosome Abnormality Induced Genetic Syndrome
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Nidhi Uppangala
Sex chromosome abnormalities are fairly common but the effect of these abnormalities is less severe than the effect caused by autosomal abnormality. Sex chromosome abnormalities cause learning disability or physical abnormality, and sex chromosome abnormalities are detected coincidentally during studying the cause for infertility or at amniocentesis.
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Recombinant DNA Technology and Production of Hormones
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Amna Adnan
Recombinant DNA technology has made it possible to produce various useful hormones which were impossible to produce by other means. Human growth hormone, Human insulin and factor of blood clotting are the major products of recombinant DNA technology.
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Applications of Transgenic Animals in Biotechnology
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Amna Adnan
Transgenic animals are those animals which are genetically modified. A foreign gene is inserted into these animals to see certain characteristics. These animals can be helpful in producing organs, growth hormones and useful proteins for the humans.
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Nutrigenomics: Effect of Nutrients on Gene Expression
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Nidhi Uppangala
Nutrients play a major role in regulation of expression of genes in mammals. The response to a nutrient deficiency or availability induces different gene expression, which is specific to each genotype.
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Proteomics Applications: Tumor Metastasis, Neurology and Diabetes
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Amna Adnan
Proteomics is the new field of genetics. There are many practical applications in biomedical field like detecting cancer, analyzing the proteins level in nutrients and many other fields make use of the techniques of proteomics.
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Can Point Mutations Cause Cystic Fibrosis?
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Amna Adnan
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder. It is caused due to the mutation in the single gene that is CFTR. CFTR protein allows the chloride ions to move out of the mucous producing cells and help in making the passages of lungs and pancreas clean. If mucous becomes thick, then it will block the passages and lungs and pancreas will not function properly.
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Genetics of Colon Cancer and Breast Or Ovarian Cancer
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Nidhi Uppangala
Continuous cell growth occur in cells present in the breast are known as breast cancer. If the same kind of cancer is seen in the cells of the ovarian tissue then it is called as ovarian cancer. These cases are as a result of inherited mutated form of either BRCA1 or BRCA2
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Types of Mutations - Frameshift, Chromosomal and Point Mutation
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Amna Adnan
Mutations are the changes in the structure of the DNA molecule or the changes in the gene sequences. There are many types of mutations which cause the defect in the genetic information.
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Cancer Metastasis and Genetics
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Nidhi Uppangala
The ability of cancer cells to spread into other parts of the body is known as metastasis. This nature of cancer makes it difficult to treat and cure the condition in a patient. Some of the genetic alterations in the cell induce the primary tumor to spread into the body to produce secondary tumors.
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