PhD student biochemistry and biophysics. Texas A&M University
Looks like in the future, you will not be going to the doctor and be diagnosed based on your symptoms. Think about it; how much do you trust a treatment that comes from the perception of a human who further analyzed a couple of blood samples? Maybe the doctor that day missed some crucial data……
A new component in telomere biology has been discovered, called TZAP. The importance behind TZAP is that it works as a telomere trimmer, making sure that the telomeres do not get any longer. But wait, isn’t having long telomeres a good thing? If you have longer telomeres you live longer right? As I explained…
Recently it has been announced that Ilumina has released a new kind of sequencer that will allow the price of sequencing a genome from a 1000$ to a 100$ in the near future. But why should I care? Why is it important to sequence my genome? Well, your genome consists of all the DNA…
Telomeres are repeated DNA sequences which are found at the end of the chromosomes. To explain how important telomeres are an analogy between telomeres and the tip of a shoe laze, the aglet, can be made. If you remove the aglet, the whole shoe laze basically falls apart. The same with telomeres, as they get…
CRISPR is the bacterial immune system in which the bacteria is able to integrate the viral DNA in its genome, and then use it against that specific virus when the bacteria is attacked. This specific immune system is conformed of the guide RNA (gRNA), integrated from the virus, and a protein called Cas9. The gRNA…