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Unveiling the ‘functionome’: Online resource describes functions of more than 20,000 human genes

by Keck School of Medicine of USC Credit: AI-generated image A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes, has been completed and released on a new website. For the first time, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the Swiss Institute of...

Scientists Figured Out a Way to Control Human Genes With Electricity
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Scientists Figured Out a Way to Control Human Genes With Electricity

BY TIM NEWCOMB PUBLISHED: AUG 2, 2023 Comstock//Getty Images Dubbed a “missing link,” a team of researchers developed an “electrogenetic interface” to control genes. The initial effort uses a battery-powered device to send electrical currents that activate a response in a targeted gene The research team believes the electrogenetic interface system offers benefits for future gene or cell therapies....