The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/dna/)
Prof. Franklin Pugh, Chitvan Mittal grad, Olivia Lang grad, and William K.M. Lai grad highlights new understandings of how the epigenome impacts transcription within cells.
The Smolka Lab, led by Prof. Marcus Smolka, molecular biology and genetics, recently published a study shedding light on a novel pathway that explains how cancer cells can become resistant to chemotherapy and offering a promising mechanism to prevent chemo-resistance —the process by which cancer cells become tolerant to chemotherapeutic drugs.
Embark, a canine DNA testing company founded in 2015 by brothers Ryan and Adam Bokyo in Cornell’s Incubator for Life Science Companies, is now taking strides in studies of the canine genome. With the swab of a dog’s cheek, Embark can provide information about the dog’s genetic risk factors and ancestry.
The Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium identified the last sequences, revealing a 100 percent complete human genome for the first time.
To a packed audience in Sage Chapel, Yusef Salaam — a member of the falsely imprisoned “Exonerated Five” — spoke about his experiences with incarceration, faith and criminal justice reform.
For 340 days, astronaut Scott Kelly lived in the International Space Station, while his identical twin brother Mark Kelly, a retired astronaut, lived a regular life on Earth. Both collected physiological and cognitive data about themselves, hoping to find out what space would do to a human’s body.
The goal of the course and the option to participate in the 23andMe genetic testing is to help demystify genetics and genetic science, especially for students not majoring in scientific fields.
The idea behind efforts in multiple systems was to see if the evolutionary behavior in acquiring changes by these repetitive DNA regions was universal.