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Genome Sequencing Center
The Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University Medical School focuses on the large scale generation and analysis of DNA sequence. The center is a leader in The Human Genome Project. The rapid release of the data over the internet facilitates the elucidation of gene function, forming the ultimate basis for an understanding of how DNA sequence dictates the form and function of an organism.
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Duck-billed DNA
Platypus genome explains animal's peculiar features; holds clues to evolution of mammals
May 7,
2008 --
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The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal — and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led by the School of Medicine, has decoded the genome of the platypus, showing that the animal's peculiar mix of features is reflected in its DNA. An analysis of the genome, published today in the journal Nature, can help scientists piece together a more complete picture of the evolution of all mammals, including humans.
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DNA Day fun
Sixth-graders get a lesson in strawberry DNA
April 29,
2008 -- DNA sequencing has led scientists to map the human genome and could take them to huge advancements in medicine — possibly diagnosing and preventing disease. But Alex Heerman just wanted to create some deadly fruit. Heerman and his fellow McKinley Middle School sixth-graders learned how to extract DNA from strawberries during a demonstration by Latricia Wallace, outreach coordinator for the Genome Center at Washington University.
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Those remarkable molecules
University Celebrates National DNA Day
April 17,
2008 -- National DNA Day is April 25. The day celebrates a most remarkable molecule, one that holds the instructions for life: DNA. DNA Day was created in 2003 to commemorate the completion of the Human Genome Project and the 50th anniversary of James Watson's and Francis Crick's discovery of DNA's double helical structure. Washington University played a key role in the Human Genome Project, an international effort to assemble in order the 3 billion letters that make up the genetic code.
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Elaine Mardis
Co-director, Genome Sequencing Center
As Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing Center, Mardis helps select genomes of interest and evaluate the optimal sequencing strategy to apply to each genome. As Director of Technology Development at the GSC, she supervises a group that includes engineers and molecular biologists toward exploring and ...
Expertise: DNA sequencing, high-speed, SNPs, genome, sequencing technology, resequencing, genetics
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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Richard Wilson
Director, Genome Sequencing Center
Under the leadership of Richard Wilson and other experts, the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) has become an internationally renowned center for innovative high-speed sequencing of genetic material. Researchers at the GSC produced the initial analyses of more than 20 percent of the human genome and were ...
Expertise: Large-scale genome sequencing and analysis, gene sequencing, chromosome, Human Genome Project
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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May We Scan Your Genome?
Newsweek
April 22,
2008 -- As personal genetic testing takes off, some worry that marketing is getting ahead of science.
With each new marketing push comes new criticism. Some say DNA testing doesn't belong in virtual clinics: One key issue is regulation.
WUSTL pediatrics and genetics specialist Thomas Morgan worries that the business is getting ahead of the science. "I might scare myself or reassure myself falsely based on the very limited knowledge that we have."
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Group says it has mapped corn genome
Associated Press
and 76 others
Feb. 26,
2008 -- Richard Wilson, director of WUSTL's Genome Sequencing Center, comments on the successful mapping of the corn genome.
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1,000 Genomes Project
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jan. 28,
2008 -- The 1,000 Genomes Project, an international research effort that includes WUSTL scientists, will sequence the genomes of one thousand people from different parts of the globe. Elaine Mardis, co-director of WUSTL's Genome Sequencing Center, comments.
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Genomic medicine: The science speeds up
Newsweek Magazine
Dec. 21,
2005 -- When the Human Genome Project completed the first directory of all human genes, the stage was set for the dream of "personalized medicine." But linking a gene to a disease can take years by conventional techniques, and decoding one person's entire genome would still be a multimillion-dollar endeavor. This fall, researchers unveiled a pair of new technologies that could boost the speed of gene sequencing tenfold, while greatly reducing the cost.
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WUSTL to study corn's genetic code
CBS News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and 42 others
Nov. 16,
2005 -- WUSTL Genome Sequencing Center researchers will lead a project to decipher the genetic code of corn, which they say should provide the knowledge leading to better corn yields.
Lead investigator Richard Wilson comments.
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