News tagged with genetic circuits
Researchers develop CAD-Type tools for engineering RNA control systems
The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences. Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Simple genetic circuit forms stripes: Synthetic biology helps scientists sort out pattern formation
Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle. Now a team of scientists has designed a simple genetic circuit that creates a striped ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Autistic mice act a lot like human patients
UCLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches.
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Photonic neuron may compute a billion times faster than brain circuits
(PhysOrg.com) -- The name of the project -- "photonic neuron" -- was catchy enough, but what really caught Mitchell Nahmias' attention was the opportunity to combine his interests in engineering and neuroscience.
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Light-controlled neo-neurons in the brain
French researchers at the Institut Pasteur in association with the CNRS have just shown, in an experimental model, that newly formed neurons in the adult brain can be stimulated by light. A novel technique ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Genetic switch underlies noisy cell division
(PhysOrg.com) -- While scientists have spent the past 40 years describing the intricate series of events that occur when one mammalian cell divides into two, they still haven't agreed on how the process begins.
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Alcohol withdrawal symptoms caused by molecules in the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Britain have discovered the molecular basis of some of the symptoms of hangover and alcohol withdrawal that appear as the body attempts to adapt to reduced levels of alcohol.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 12, 2010 |
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Loss of enzyme reduces neural activity in Angelman syndrome
Angelman Syndrome is a rare but serious genetic disorder that causes a constellation of developmental problems in affected children, including mental retardation, lack of speech, and in some cases, autism. Over a decade ago, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry
By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal's brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Light used to map effect of neurons on one another
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Bacteria 'invest' wisely to survive uncertain times, scientists report
Like savvy Wall Street money managers, bacteria hedge their bets to increase their chances of survival in uncertain times, strategically investing their biological resources to weather unpredictable environments.
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Genetically engineered bacteria compute the route
US researchers have created 'bacterial computers' with the potential to solve complicated mathematics problems. The findings of the research, published in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biological Engineering, demons ...
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Researchers discover genetic circuit that regulates behavior of stem cells
Jordi Garcia Ojalvo -- a lecturer at the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering of the Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya’s School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT, ...
Jul 20, 2009 |
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New Role Discovered for Molecule Important in Development of Endocrine System
(PhysOrg.com) -- For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, to no avail. Now, they may be one step closer. A protein, whose role ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Protein linked to mental retardation controls synapse maturation, plasticity
A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated the mechanism by which a signaling protein found throughout the brain controls the maturation and strength of excitatory synapses, the tiny ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 01, 2009 |
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