DNA test reveals perpetrators’ looks

Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands

Hair and eye colour of an unknown perpetrator can now be estimated from his or her DNA left behind at the crime scene. Erasmus MC scientists, in collaboration with their Polish and Greek colleagues, have developed the first DNA test system for hair colour prediction that also allows determination of most likely eye colour.

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Shopping for DNA

NGI Corporate

A new shopping concept has been launched in various cities all over the Netherlands: the D&A pop-up store. The D&A Store is full of discoveries about DNA. What length has your DNA? How much DNA do you eat per day? What is your DNA code?

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Big data volumes analysed in the cloud

Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre

Collaboration between NBIC and the e-BioGrid team resulted in a new service: NBIC Galaxy on Cloud. Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research. The migration of Galaxy to the cloud allows end-users to run their analysis on the BiG Grid High Performance Computing (HPC) cloud at SARA. The Dutch cloud version of Galaxy enables processing of big data volumes and the high speed network connection provides rapid data.

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Facial shape genes identified

Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands

FGCN's researcher Manfred Kayser is the leading author of a publication in PLOS Genetics on the finding of five genes that determine human facial shapes. The study is a cooperation of researchers from the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Woronin bodies act as fungal doors

Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation

Robert-Jan Bleichrodt from Utrecht University and the Kluyver Centre, together with colleagues from the University of Tokyo, recently published an article in Molecular Microbiology on the regulation of transport through these pores. They demonstrate that small organelles called Woronin bodies can plug the central pores and by doing so maintain differences in gene expression in neighbouring hyphae.

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