{"id":922,"date":"2004-07-20T03:17:39","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T03:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:43","slug":"genetics-mans-best-friend-is-decoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"genetics: man&#8217;s best friend is decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After a year of work, researchers announced last  week that they have assembled a detailed draft of the dog genome, the  genetic coding that makes a dog a dog. The genome has been placed  on-line in various public databases, making it available to veterinary  and biomedical scientists around the world. A team of researchers led by  Kerstin Lindblad-Toh of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and  Agencourt Bioscience Corp., in Beverly, Mass., successfully decoded the  genetic sequence of a female boxer named Tasha. Scientists are  interested in the canine genome because many dogs are prone to the same  genetic diseases that are seen in humans, including cancer, heart  disease, deafness, blindness, and autoimmune disorders. The researchers  are currently comparing the human and canine genome sequences for  similarities and differences, and plan to publish their analysis in the  next few months. Tasha, however, is not the only dog to have her genome  decoded: a rough genetic sequence of a male standard poodle named Shadow  was reported in the journal <em>Science<\/em> last year. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 7\/20\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of work, researchers announced last week that they have assembled a detailed draft of the dog genome, the genetic coding that makes a dog a dog. The genome has been placed on-line in various public databases, making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=922\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}