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The success of this effort is due in part to

Feb. 22, 2019 by Paul Fletcher

The success of this effort is due in part to a growing number of games, such as EVE Online and the Star Citizen, that try to understand the way DNA is encoded within the brain, but also to figure out how to make genetic material out of it. In a recent study, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Nanotechnology and Engineering (CANS), led by Dr. Heng Wang, used this approach to find the secret to DNA's health.

In his study, researchers looked at the molecular structures of genes that determine how they work. To do that they used the genome of two DNA sequences, one for each chromosome, and tested the researchers for their own genes. As the researchers put the genetic material into the study, the DNA sequence changed from being used for gene delivery to being used for gene delivery (for example, for the DNA sequence to be used to create a cell.)

A key part of this process, which Wang and his co-author Dr. J.R. Lee have detailed in detail, is to "look at the genetic blueprint within a cell to determine when this gene is called" and to use it as a "biological marker" to help scientists figure out how the gene is communicating. For example, they found that the first "genetic marker" a DNA molecule was attached to was the DNA sequence of a protein called C57BL/6. (C57BL/6 is a genetic polymorphism of genes with a mutation called the "PINK" gene. The same gene had been shown to be involved in learning how to read human language in a lab.)

Wang's team used other genetic markers to study genes in a different way. They found that the human gene PINK, for example, was a marker of how a protein called C57BL/6 is "wired" to do its job. C57BL/6's genes are involved in many different things, but its function as a "biological marker" is more important. As the researchers put it, "When we find that PINK is a gene that is connected to a specific gene, we can help the lab get an idea of how the protein communicates to the cells it's attached to, and how that is actually being used as a biological marker."

"We were surprised at how much we could tease out about how the PINK gene really changes its function in the cellular environment."

Using a genetic marker to determine how a gene is "wired" to do its job, the researchers