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New way to examine how medicines act on cells

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Using a genome editing technique called CRISPR/Cas9, the researchers attached a super-bright glowing molecule, derived from deep sea shrimp, to specific molecules important for signalling in cancer cells, ‘receptors’. Receptors…

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Ground-breaking new study doubles the estimate of our functional genes

By | Cancer, Cancer and Cell Biology, Disease Area, Genes, Lab, News & Events, Research, Research Area, Systems Biology and Genomics

The findings, published in Nature, were the latest work of the FANTOM5 consortium, a group of researchers from Japan and Australia led by Professor Alistair Forrest from the Perkins and The University of…