This video is about whole genome sequencing. What is a genome? What are the basics of how whole genome sequencing works? What can you find out about yourself from getting your genome sequenced? And what are the potential benefits and risks? You might be considering getting your genome sequenced for clinical, research or personal reasons. Or you might just be curious and want to learn a bit more about this technology
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A study of recurring DNA snippets in the people of Madagascar calls to mind the phrases that punctuate Wagner’s “Ring” operas. 
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Yet today, actually, one of the regulars there, Virginia Hughes, thinks really small, with a short video that illustrates how DNA manages to pack its immensely long self into the teeny confines of a cell nucleus — the genome as a beaded string of circus clowns.
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dailygalaxy.com - Scientists confirmed this week that rocks collected recently in the Moroccan desert came from the Red Planet. A little-known fact is that each year Earth is hit by by half a dozen or so one-pound or larger rocks that were...
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DNA: The next big hacking frontier. Imagine computer-designed viruses that cure disease, new bacteria capable of synthesizing an unlimited fuel supply, new organisms that wipe out entire populations and bio-toxins that target world leaders. They sound like devices restricted to feature-film script writers, but it is possible to create all of these today, using the latest advances in synthetic biology. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino
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Virtually all organisms with complex cells—better known as eukaryotes—have at least two separate genomes. The main one sits in the central nucleus. There’s also a smaller one in tiny bean-shaped structures called mitochondria, little batteries that provide the cell with energy. Both sets of genes must work together. Neither functions properly without the other.
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Ever feel like your sons are always on your mind? Actually, it might be more true that you think – researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found traces of male DNA in women’s brains, which seems to come from cells from a baby boy crossing the blood-brain barrier during pregnancy. This is known as microchimerism, and according to the researchers, this is the first description of male microchimerism in the female human brain.
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Researchers have completed the genome sequence for the gorilla, the last genus of the living great apes to have its genome decoded.
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Schatz believes the solution lies in cloud computing. He hopes to use Google's algorithms to sort through the genomic data deluge. “Our genome is a molecule about three billion bases long, but today there is no technology that can just read off all of these individual nucleotides," he told Big Think. "Instead, the technology sequences little tiny fragments from here and here and here and here and here. How can we interpret what the entire genome is from all these little snippets?”
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The world's largest genome sequencing center once needed four days to analyse data describing a human genome.
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This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture.
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If the human brain – with 100 billion neurons forging trillions of connections – were not complicated enough, new research suggests that every neuron may have its very own genome.
Add McConnell's observation to the overwhelming evidence that epigenetic modifications influence traits such as obesity, or the suggestion that the sequences of many genes are subtlty altered after being transcribed, and you get the sense that organism are not content to stick with the genome they were born with.
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