A new mathematical tool from Dr. Eran Halperin of TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science aims to protect genetic privacy while giving genomic data to researchers.

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Aug 31, 2009 1 / 5 (1) 1

In a little over seven hours, University of Illinois weed scientist Patrick Tranel got more genetic information about waterhemp than in two years time in a lab. The genetic information was obtained using pyrosequencing technology ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 05, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

Pinpointing the genes involved in human brain cancer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and sometimes the needle you find may not be the right one. By comparing human and canine genomes, researchers at North ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Jul 06, 2009 not rated yet 0

Princeton researchers have created a Rosetta Stone for the human body, a website that offers clues to the role DNA plays in aging and disease by helping scientists make sense of the vast jumble of information emerging from ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Jun 13, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 29, 2009 4.6 / 5 (18) 2

A Cancer Genomics Browser developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, provides a new way to visualize and analyze data from studies aimed at improving cancer treatment by unraveling the complex genetic ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Mar 30, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 0

Animals have an astonishing ability to develop reliably, in spite of variable conditions during embryogenesis. New research, published in parallel this week in PLoS Biology and PLoS Computational Biology, ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 10, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a world first, CSIRO scientists will use an innovative DNA technique to deliver reliable data about north Queensland’s Cassowary population and by doing so develop a greater understanding ...

Biology -

Jan 30, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thousands of painstakingly handwritten books produced in medieval Europe still exist today, but scholars have long struggled with questions about when and where the majority of these works originated. Now ...

Chemistry -

Jan 12, 2009 4.5 / 5 (2) 0