Monthly Archives: April 2014

Happy DNA Day!

Here at Sage Science headquarters, we’ll be spending April 25th celebrating DNA Day. If you’re not familiar, the day honors double milestones of the original publication of the structure of DNA in 1953 as well as the ceremonial completion of … more »

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In the Journals: Pippin Publications

We’re pleased to see that the steady stream of publications citing the use of Pippin Prep and BluePippin as our automated DNA size selection tools help more and more users get more accurate and reproducible results. The instruments have been … more »

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Highly Specific Contractions of a Single CAG/CTG Trinucleotide Repeat by TALEN in Yeast

April 2014 Authors: Guy-Franck Richard, David Viterbo, Varun Khanna, Valentine Mosbach, Lauriane Castelain, and Bernard Dujon Info: Researchers in France used a TALEN to introduce a double-strand break in a CAG/CCTG repeat in yeast cells, finding that doing so deleted … more »

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The emerging biofuel crop Camelina sativa retains a highly undifferentiated hexaploid genome structure

April 2014 Authors: Sateesh Kagale, Chushin Koh, John Nixon, Venkatesh Bollina, Wayne E. Clarke, Reetu Tuteja, Charles Spillane, Stephen J. Robinson, Matthew G. Links, Carling Clarke, Erin E. Higgins, Terry Huebert, Andrew G. Sharpe & Isobel A.P. Parkin Info: Scientists … more »

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The transcription factor BATF operates as an essential differentiation checkpoint in early effector CD8+ T cells

March 2014 Authors: Makoto Kurachi, R Anthony Barnitz, Nir Yosef, Pamela M Odorizzi, Michael A DiIorio, Madeleine E Lemieux, Kathleen Yates, Jernej Godec, Martin G Klatt, Aviv Regev, E John Wherry and W Nicholas Haining Info: Collaborators led by scientists … more »

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Genome-wide SNPs lead to strong signals of geographic structure and relatedness paterns in the major arbovirus vector, Aedes aegypti

April 2014 Authors: Gordana Rašić, Igor Filipović, Andrew R Weeks and Ary A Hoffmann Info: From the Pest and Disease Vector Group, Department of Genetics, the University of Melbourne Australia. The researchers developed a new bioinformatics tool for the ddRAD … more »

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A first genetic map of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) reveals long-range genome structure conservation in the palms

April 2014 Authors: Lisa S Mathew, Manuel Spannagl, Ameena Al-Malki, Binu George, Maria F Torres, Eman K Al-Dous, Eman K Al-Azwani, Emad Hussein, Sweety Mathew, Klaus FX Mayer, Yasmin Ali Mohamoud, Karsten Suhre and Joel A Malek Info: The first … more »

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The Champion of Ancient Genomics: Sample Prep

A recent article in Nature News delves into the trends behind the rise of ancient genomics and finds that improvements in sample preparation have been essential to scientists’ success in this area. As a team that focuses every day on … more »

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