Advances in Transcriptomics

Advances in Swine Transcriptomics

The past five years have seen a tremendous rise in porcine transcriptomic data. Available porcine Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) have expanded greatly, with over 623,000 ESTs deposited in Genbank. ESTs have been used to expand the pig-human comparative maps, but such data has also been used in many ways to understand pig gene expression. Several methods have been used to identify genes differen...

An Updated Snapshot of Recent Advances in Transcriptomics and Genomics of Phytomedicinals

Medicinal plants have been of great importance to human health care since the advent of medicine. A huge array of molecules has been obtained from these phytopharmaceutical-yielding species that have influenced human lives since the beginning of plant-based life-saving medicines. Some of these molecules have taken the form of taxol, aspirin, and artemisinin. With the flourishing era of highthro...

Recent advances in understanding evolution of the placenta: insights from transcriptomics

The mammalian placenta shows an extraordinary degree of variation in gross and fine structure, but this has been difficult to interpret in physiological terms. Transcriptomics offers a path to understanding how structure relates to function. This essay examines how studies of gene transcription can inform us about placental evolution in eutherian and marsupial mammals and more broadly about con...

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells-Emphasis on Transcriptomics and Recent Advances in Therapeutic Potential

In our previous review we reviewed the history of embryonic stem cells, advantages and disadvantages of ESC, parthenogenetic ESC and their therapeutic applications, cloning along with merits of SCNT, in this shot commentary we have just concentrated on induced pluripotent stem cells, mainly their transcriptomics, along with special emphasis on global transcriptomics in candidate oocyte factors ...

Advances in Targeted Drug Delivery