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Cells are like robust computational systems, Carnegie Mellon-led team reports

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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PITTSBURGH—Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report today in the online journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each system keeps working despite the failure of individual components, whether they are master genes or computer processors.
This finding by an international team led [...]

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In a rare disorder, a familiar protein disrupts gene function

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by admin.

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Press release from PLoS Biology
As reported this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, an international team of scientists studying a rare genetic disease has discovered that a bundle of proteins already known to be important for keeping chromosomes together also plays an important role in regulating gene expression in humans. In addition to shedding [...]

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