News tagged with dna segment

New latent tuberculosis test promises to be cheap and fast

Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have developed a microfluidic chip to test for latent tuberculosis. They hope the test will be cheaper, faster and more reliable than current testing for the disease.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers take steps toward fast, low-cost DNA sequencing device

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Yale University have developed a new concept for use in a high-speed genomic sequencing device that may have the potential to substantially drive down costs.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New hope for diagnosis and treatment of intractable pediatric brain tumors

Scientists have discovered oncogenes capable of driving growth of normal human brain stem cells in a highly malignant pediatric brain tumor. The research, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the journal Cancer Ce ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Animals that seem identical may be completely different species

Animals that seem identical may belong to completely different species. This is the conclusion of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who have used DNA analyses to discover that one of our ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0