Rice University’s Peter Wolynes and his research team have unveiled a breakthrough in understanding how specific genetic sequences, known as pseudogenes, evolve. Their paper was published May 13 by ...

Pseudogenes may analogously be vestiges of old code associated with defunct routines, but they also constitute a fascinating record contained within the overall program of how it has grown and ...

Liang's study is novel in that understanding of pseudogenes relies on analyzing large numbers of patient samples. Previous studies have been limited by the size of the patient sample groups.

Clinical genetic testing has been transformed in recent years by the introduction of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS). Targeted gene panels have made it possible to simultaneously analyse hundreds of ...

Pseudogenes: dysfunctional, unloved and seemingly of little use, these poor-cousin relatives of genes have lost their protein-coding abilities. They contain material not essential for an organism ...

Pseudogenes are segments of DNA that once encoded proteins but have since lost their ability to do so due to sequence degradation -- a phenomenon referred to as devolution.

Even though many people believe that pseudogenes are “junk genes,” what little research there is on this topic suggests that the transcriptionally active pseudogenes play an interesting role in cancer ...

The study by researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center raises the possibility of using the information provided by these dysfunctional genes. Alas, the thankless pseudogene. Dysfunctional, unloved ...

Pseudogenes are like broken-down copies of normal genes. They look similar to regular genes, but they don’t work properly because they’ve lost the ability to produce functional proteins.