because many diseases are multifactorial disorders, the scientific progress in genomics and genetics should be taken into consideration in public health research. in this context, genomic databases will constitute an important source of information. consequently, it is important to identify and characterize the state's role and authority on matters related to public health, in order to verify w...

micrornas (mirna) are a class of noncoding and regulatory rna molecules about 22 nucleotides in length. micrornas regulate gene expression by an rna interfering pathway through cleavage or inhibition of the translation of target mrna. many mirnas have been reported for their important roles in developmental processes in various animals, but there is limited information about cattle and sheep mi...

INTRODUCTION The goals of this study were to determine U.S. states with Comprehensive Cancer Control plans that include genomics in some capacity and to review successes with and barriers to implementation of genomics-related cancer control initiatives. METHODS This study was conducted in two phases. Phase one included a content analysis of written state Comprehensive Cancer Control plans (n ...

The joint 5th Pan Arab Human Genetics conference and 2013 Golden Helix Symposium, "Genomics into Healthcare" was coorganized by the Center for Arab Genomic Studies (http://www.cags.org.ae) in collaboration with the Golden Helix Foundation (http://www.goldenhelix.org) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 17 to 19 November, 2013. The meeting was attended by over 900 participants, doctors and biome...

Gene Expression Beginner 1 hour This is the first part of our functional genomics course. This course will give you an introduction to functional genomics. We will introduce you to different types of functional genomics studies and discuss best practices when designing your own experiments. We will also explore some examples of how functional genomics is being applied to drug discovery and plan...

This conference brought the microbial genomics community together to share their most up-to-the-minute achievements, so much so that several talks cannot be covered here, as the work discussed has not yet been published. This meeting report has details of a cross-section of the talks from the sessions on 'Genome analysis and comparative genomics', 'Computational genomics' and 'Functional genomi...

High-throughput RNAi screening identifies a role for TNK1 in growth and survival of 1 pancreatic cancer cells 2 3 Meredith C. Henderson, Irma M. Gonzales, Shilpi Arora, Ashish Choudhary, Jeffrey M. 4 Trent, Daniel D. Von Hoff, Spyro Mousses, David O. Azorsa 5 6 Clinical Translational Research Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, 7 Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA 8 Pharmaceutical Gen...

The world of genomics is transforming medicine, and is likely to influence the future development of new drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines. To date, the greater focus of genomics and medicine has been on conditions affecting resourcewealthy settings, primarily involving scientists and companies in those settings. However, we believe that it is possible to expand genomics into a more global techn...