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25,000 Estimated number of genes in the human genome, about a quarter as many as previously thought
27,000 Number of genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant of the mustard family
Mootha is also working towards discovering the genes that code for mitochondria as well as the role of the organelles in human diseases.
The point of both chemical and classical genetic research is to figure out which genes do what?in effect, to learn to read an organism's genetic language. In classical genetics, scientists usually mutate an organism, see how its functions have changed (a mutated virus might no longer be infectious...
With help from their collaborators at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York, Kao and his colleagues discovered that one of 104 compounds inhibited a kind of viral processing inside the cell, six inhibited viral replication and 18 seemed to prevent the virus from entering the cell in...