Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle and the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg have jointly developed a revolutionary method to analyse the genomes of ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 13, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

(Phys.org) —Predictability is often used synonymously with "boring," as in that story or that outcome was soooo predictable. For practitioners of synthetic biology seeking to engineer valuable new microbes, ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 14, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a new way to accelerate a workhorse instrument that identifies proteins. The high-speed technique could help diagnose cancer sooner and point to new drugs for ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Feb 24, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Many questions arise when two identical twins raised in the same home—fed the same, nurtured the same way—follow disparate paths. How can the identical offspring of a single egg turn out ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 11, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

For the first time, researchers have been able to see a thought "swim" through the brain of a living fish. The new technology is a useful tool for studies of perception. It might even find use in psychiatric ...

Biology - Other

Jan 31, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

Tanzania has many different and diverse wildlife populations spread across a network of protected areas extending over the whole country.

Biology - Ecology

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Scientists studying the genes and proteins of human cells infected with a common cold virus have identified a new gene identification technique that could increase the genetic information we hold on animals by around 70 to ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 11, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

Sequencing, splicing and expressing DNA may seem to be the quintessence of cutting-edge science—indeed DNA manipulation has revolutionized fields such as biofuels, chemicals and medicine. But in fact, the ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 02, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Microscopes provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. However, this is very difficult especially for higher organisms. ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 16, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 03, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

An international team of researchers headed by ETH-Zurich scientists has demonstrated for the first time how to extract testable hypotheses from a vast amount of different measurement data for cells that are ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 27, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a new computational method allows researchers to identify which specific molecular mechanisms are altered by genetic mutations in proteins that lead to disease. And they ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 19, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0 |

Research at Iowa State University has led to discovery of a genetic method that can increase biomass in algae by 50 to 80 percent.

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 21, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have developed a new method for counting molecules. Quantifying the amounts of different kinds of RNA and DNA molecules is a fundamental ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 21, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

Using yeast as a model, a team of Spanish researchers has made predictions about how individuals differ from one another by analysing genome sequences.

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 17, 2011 not rated yet 0