News tagged with biological network

Researchers uncover how plant skin is assembled

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have identified how a plant's skin is assembled.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New databases harvest a rich bounty of information on crop plant metabolism

The Plant Metabolic Network, which is based at Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology, has launched four new online databases that offer an unprecedented view of the biochemical pathways controlling the metabolism of corn, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Unraveling biological networks

A new approach to disentangling the complexities of biological networks, such as the way in which proteins interact in our body's cells has been developed by researchers in China. The team's algorithm could allow biologists ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NanoCAGE reveals transcriptional landscape of the mouse main olfactory epithelium

The problem in biology of how to identify the promoters of olfactory receptor genes (>1000 genes) has remained unsolved due to the difficulty of purifying sufficient material from the olfactory epithelium. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds social networks promote cooperation, discourage selfishness

It turns out nice guys can finish first, and David Rand has the evidence to prove it.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Genome-scale network of rice genes to speed the development of biofuel crops

The first genome-scale model for predicting the functions of genes and gene networks in a grass species has been developed by an international team of researches that includes scientists with the U.S. Department ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Manipulating single molecules to unravel secrets of protein folding

Physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are opening a new window into the life of biological cells, using a technique that lets them grab the ends of a single protein molecule and pull, making ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New insight in how cells' powerhouse divides

New research from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado at Boulder puts an unexpected twist on how mitochondria, the energy-generating structures within cells, divide. The work, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Online activity grows in a similar pattern to those of real-life networks

The activity of online communities does not grow in line with the number of users, according to a model recently published in the European Physical Journal B.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Controlling movements with light

German researchers at the Ruhr-Universitaet have succeeded in controlling the activity of certain nerve cells using light, thus influencing the movements of mice. By changing special receptors in nerve cells of the cerebellum ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Metabolic models make remediation more manageable

(PhysOrg.com) -- In efforts to reduce contamination at a former uranium mill tailings site, Dr. Krishna Mahadevan is developing genome-scale models to determine why certain bacteria reduce uranium better than ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Atlas of an organism

While every cell of an organism contains the same genes only a proportion are expressed in any tissue at a given stage in development. Knowing the extent of gene transcription is valuable and a team of European researchers ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New markers for allergic disorders thanks to analysis of medical databases

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed new methods for analysing medical databases that can be used to identify diagnostic markers more quickly and to personalise medication for allergic disorders. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obesity rate will reach at least 42 percent, say models of social contagion

Researchers at Harvard University say America's obesity epidemic won't plateau until at least 42 percent of adults are obese, an estimate derived by applying mathematical modeling to 40 years of Framingham Heart Study data.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New center looks at how human systems function or fail

A new center called the National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB), based at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, will help clinicians analyze an ever-growing wealth of complex biological ...

Biology / Other

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0