What is a gene?
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A glut of data would be released from the international Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project in 2006 whose pilot phase involves scrutinizing roughly 1% of the human genome in unprecedented details. The first of the complexities to challenge molecular biology's paradigm of a single DNA sequence encoding a single protein was alternative splicing, discovered in viruses in 1977.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Infertility researchers target uterus transplant
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Infertility researchers are targeting women with a transplanted uterus so that she might bear a child, an operation, if performed, would only be the second such attempt in the world. The risks and benefits of uterus transplants and also the effects of the immunosuppressant drugs are discussed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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