WALNUT CREEK, CA – An international research consortium led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) reported today on the draft sequencing, assembly, and analysis of the genome ...

A deadly Japanese fish may be the next key to illuminating the mysteries of the human genome. Scientists have reported decoding the genetic sequence of the Japanese pufferfish, Fugu rubripes, an ...

The poisonous Japanese pufferfish, known as fugu to gourmets who risk their lives eating it, has yielded valuable new genetic information in the quest for deeper knowledge of the basics of human ...

A substantial short cut to the biologically important information embedded in the human genome has been taken by an international research consortium with the completion of a draft sequence of the ...

The puffer fish, or Fugu rubripes, is an ideal candidate for genome research because its genetic code is so short. Although it contains many of the same genes that the human genom ...

An international team has produced a first draft of the genome of the Japanese pufferfish Fugu rubripes, a feat that is expected to aid in understanding the human genome. The Fugu genome is thought to ...

In under a year, less time than it takes to train a Japanese chef to safely prepare the potentially deadly seafood, an international research team has almost fully deciphered the unusually compact ...

The genome of the poisonous puffer fish has been sequenced by an international consortium of researchers. Comparison with the “clean” DNA of the fish will help scientists pick out human genes from the ...

Fugu rubripes is a teleost fish that comes from the Far East. The compact nature of the Fugu genome (it has about the same number of genes as the human genome crammed into one eighth of the length) ...

An international research consortium led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) reported on the draft sequencing, assembly, and analysis of the genome of the Japanese ...