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MEDICAL USES. “BrainGate that allows fully paralyzed patients to control devices with their thoughts. BrainGate works by inserting a small chip, studded with about 100 needlelike wires—a high-tech brush—into the part of the neocortex controlling movement. These motor signals are fed to an external computer that decodes them and passes them along to external robotic devices.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579435592981780528 View in LinkedIn

PROTEIN AMPLIFICATION. "The proteins translated from alternatively spliced mRNAs will contain differences in their amino acid sequence and, often, in their biological functions. Notably, alternative splicing allows the human genome to direct the synthesis of many more proteins than would be expected from its 20,000 protein-coding genes." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing View in LinkedIn

EXON SELECTIONS. "Alternative splicing, or differential splicing, is a regulated process during gene expression that results in a single gene coding for multiple proteins. In this process, particular exons of a gene may be included within or excluded from the final, processed messenger RNA (mRNA) produced from that gene." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing View in LinkedIn

ABUNDANCE TAP. "Together with nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), at least 25% of all alternative exons are predicted to regulate transcript abundance." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037811190400650X View in LinkedIn