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• Update your bookmarks: GSA launches new open-access journal, G3: Genes| Genomes | Genetics

  The Genetics Society of America has launched a new scholarly journal titled G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics. G3 was created to meet the need for rapid review and publication of high-quality foundational research and experimental resources in genetics and genomics – an outlet unrestricted by subjective editorial criteria [...]

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• I’ll drink to that: scientists identify and compare yeast genomes

  Researchers have identified and compared the genetic codes for all known species of yeasts closely related to bakers' and brewers' yeast. This information, published in the Genetics Society of America's new open-access journal, G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics, lays the foundation for future understanding of mutation and disease, [...]

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• Non-coding RNA has role in inherited neurological disorder — and maybe other brain diseases too

  Researchers have uncovered a novel mechanism regulating gene expression and transcription linked to Spinocerebellar ataxia 7, an inherited neurological disorder. The discovery promises to have broad ramifications, suggesting that abundant non-coding transcripts of ribonucleic acid (RNA) may be key players in neurological development and function, and could be powerful targets [...]

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• Miami-based Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program awards $5 million to Univ of Missouri

  University of Missouri officials have announced a $5 million grant agreement with the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, through the Foundation’s Translational Partnership Award Program. The goal of the partnership is to develop technologies that will save, extend and improve patient lives and suffering from any disease or condition in any [...]

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• New curation tool a boon for genetic biologists

  With the BeeSpace Navigator, University of Illinois researchers have created both a curation tool for genetic biologists and a new approach to searching for information.

  The project was a collaboration between researchers at the Institute for Genomic Biology and the department of computer science. Led by Bruce Schatz, professor and [...]

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