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Genes, Volume 9, Issue 3

March 2018 - 55 articles

Cover Story: When Egyptologists at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, could not figure out the sex of a mummified head from an important 4000-year-old Egyptian tomb, they turned to the medical and scientific communities for help. In 2009, scientists extracted a molar in the hope of recovering sufficient uncontaminated DNA to provide the answer. Their first attempt failed because the DNA proved too degraded to yield results with the routinely employed DNA typing methodologies of the time. The FBI stepped in and applied the cutting-edge techniques described in this article to find the long-sought answer. View the paper here.
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Articles (55)

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,463 Views
13 Pages

The Non-Coding Regulatory RNA Revolution in Archaea

  • Diego Rivera Gelsinger and
  • Jocelyne DiRuggiero

5 March 2018

Small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are ubiquitously found in the three domains of life playing large-scale roles in gene regulation, transposable element silencing and defense against foreign elements. While a substantial body of experimental work has bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,427 Views
26 Pages

5 March 2018

A better understanding of the factors that regulate growth and immune response of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of calves will promote informed management practices in calf rearing. This study aimed to explore genomics (messenger RNA (mRNA)) and e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,877 Views
15 Pages

2 March 2018

Chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) pathogenesis. Despite the availability of a HBV vaccine, current treatments for HCC are inadequate. Globally, 257 million people are chronic HBV carriers, and child...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,437 Views
19 Pages

Wnt Signalling in Intestinal Stem Cells: Lessons from Mice and Flies

  • Jessica Perochon,
  • Lynsey R. Carroll and
  • Julia B. Cordero

2 March 2018

Adult stem cells play critical roles in the basal maintenance of tissue integrity, also known as homeostasis, and in tissue regeneration following damage. The highly conserved Wnt signalling pathway is a key regulator of stem cell fate. In the gastro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,438 Views
16 Pages

2 March 2018

Increasing evidence suggests that dysregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) may lead to a variety of diseases. Therefore, identifying disease-related miRNAs is a crucial problem. Currently, many computational approaches have been proposed to predict binary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,336 Views
17 Pages

Pyrethroid Resistance in the Major Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus is Exacerbated by Overexpression and Overactivity of the P450 CYP6AA1 Across Africa

  • Sulaiman S. Ibrahim,
  • Nathalie Amvongo-Adjia,
  • Murielle J. Wondji,
  • Helen Irving,
  • Jacob M. Riveron and
  • Charles S. Wondji

2 March 2018

Resistance to pyrethroids (the ingredients in bed net insecticides) in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus is threatening recent gains in the fight against malaria. Here, we established the role of an over-expressed P450, A. funestus CYP6AA1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,551 Views
17 Pages

1 March 2018

Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common neoplasia in Europe, where it accounts for 28.2 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In an effort to decrease the incidence of this disease, various prevention measures are being studied, one of which are ant...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,016 Views
20 Pages

The Unforeseen Non-Coding RNAs in Head and Neck Cancer

  • Alexandra Iulia Irimie,
  • Alina-Andreea Zimta,
  • Cristina Ciocan,
  • Nikolay Mehterov,
  • Diana Dudea,
  • Cornelia Braicu and
  • Ioana Berindan-Neagoe

1 March 2018

Previously ignored non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have become the subject of many studies. However, there is an imbalance in the amount of consideration that ncRNAs are receiving. Some transcripts such as microRNAs (miRNAs) or small interfering RNAs (siRNA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
62,158 Views
18 Pages

Biological Sexing of a 4000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Head to Assess the Potential of Nuclear DNA Recovery from the Most Damaged and Limited Forensic Specimens

  • Odile Loreille,
  • Shashikala Ratnayake,
  • Adam L. Bazinet,
  • Timothy B. Stockwell,
  • Daniel D. Sommer,
  • Nadin Rohland,
  • Swapan Mallick,
  • Philip L.F. Johnson,
  • Pontus Skoglund and
  • Anthony J. Onorato
  • + 3 authors

1 March 2018

High throughput sequencing (HTS) has been used for a number of years in the field of paleogenomics to facilitate the recovery of small DNA fragments from ancient specimens. Recently, these techniques have also been applied in forensics, where they ha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,310 Views
33 Pages

Translational Advances of Hydrofection by Hydrodynamic Injection

  • Luis Sendra,
  • María José Herrero and
  • Salvador F. Aliño

1 March 2018

Hydrodynamic gene delivery has proven to be a safe and efficient procedure for gene transfer, able to mediate, in murine model, therapeutic levels of proteins encoded by the transfected gene. In different disease models and targeting distinct organs,...

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