{"id":205,"date":"2009-03-18T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T22:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=205"},"modified":"2009-03-19T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:49:48","slug":"researchers-develop-a-structural-approach-to-exploring-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/03\/18\/researchers-develop-a-structural-approach-to-exploring-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop a structural approach to exploring DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/images\/faculty\/tullius.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/images\/faculty\/tullius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by Boston University chemistry professor <a title=\"Thomas D. Tullius\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/faculty\/profile\/tullius.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas D. Tullius<\/a>, graduate student Stephen Parker and a team at the National Institutes of Health, developed a new method of uncovering functional areas of the human genome by studying DNA&#8217;s structure instead of\u00a0\u00a0the more familiar analysis of the sequence of the DNA bases.\u00a0Their study in <em>Science <\/em>revealed that the precise shape of some genomic DNA has been determined by evolution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By considering the three-dimensional structure of DNA, you can better explain the biology of the genome,&#8221; said Tullius.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"For more information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/news\/releases\/display.php?id=1791\" target=\"_blank\">For more information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by Boston University chemistry professor Thomas D. Tullius, graduate student Stephen Parker and a team at the National Institutes of Health, developed a new method of uncovering functional areas of the human genome by studying DNA&#8217;s structure instead of\u00a0\u00a0the more familiar analysis of the sequence of the DNA bases.\u00a0Their study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[633,635,634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}