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Psychiatric Diseases: More complex than you thought | Illumina SciMon Video

541 views | 1 decade ago

Autism and Schizophrenia are complex psychiatric diseases, created by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. A large number of small de novo mutations that affect only one or two nucleotides,...

Natural Food Production: Sequencing takes center stage | Illumina SciMon Video

358 views | 1 decade ago

Synopsis: Sequencing accelerates breeding programs for food-producing animals by helping to identify and select desirable characteristics, such as disease resistance. By breeding animals that are naturally...

Human Evolution: Reaching new Heights | Illumina SciMon Video

485 views | 1 decade ago

Synopsis: Tibetans live and thrive at extreme altitudes. An important event in this human adaptation was the incorporation of DNA from Denisovans. Denisovans are ancient ancestors that diverged from...

Retroviruses: A roll of the Dicer | Illumina SciMon Video

408 views | 1 decade ago

Every individual responds differently to infection by the same type of virus. This is partly due to the tricks viruses use to dodge the host s immune system. Viruses use transposable elements from the...

Zombie Viruses: Blast from the Past

768 views | 1 decade ago

One of the risks of global warming and the melting of the permafrost is that ancient microbes can be released into the environment. In a recent paper, the authors demonstrated that live, ancient viruses...

Snuppy: Every dog has his day Twice! | Illumina SciMon Video

431 views | 1 decade ago

Sequencing ancient mitochondrial DNA provided insights to the origin of dogs and their domestication. Not only has sequencing allowed us to trace back evolution of species, but also to trace back transmissible...

Grapefruits and Mohawks: The Fountain of Youth? | Illumina SciMon Video

440 views | 1 decade ago

Grapefruits and Mohawks: The Fountain of Youth? Synopsis: The process of aging has been of interest for millennia. Myths of the fountain of youth still have their allure of longevity. Scientists today...

End-to-End Workflow for HIV Variant Calling | Illumina Video

1197 views | 1 decade ago

While HIV drug resistance testing is an integral aspect of part of HIV clinical care, a method for detecting minority populations of resistant virus has become an important aspect of research. View...