Yashar Zeighami's research at McGill University in Canada provides a fresh method for characterising brain disorders. The study, published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, suggests that comparing transcriptomes (the map of activity for all genes in the genome) associated with differe
Yashar Zeighami's research at McGill University in Canada gives a novel technique to characterise brain illnesses. The study, published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, indicates that comparing transcriptomes (the map of activity for all genes in the genome) associated with different
To acquire insight into the degree to which genes are "turned on" and perform tasks in the body, a person's RNA landscape must be mapped to a standard reference. However, when the reference does not provide enough information to allow for correct mapping, researchers may encounter a problem