News tagged with genetic method

Microscope looks into cells of living fish

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

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists produce first stem cells from endangered species

Starting with normal skin cells, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have produced the first stem cells from endangered species. Such cells could eventually make it possible to improve reproduction ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Method identifies mutations that drive genetic diseases

(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

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research on stickleback fish shows how adaptation to new environments involves many genes

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

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Counting duplicated genome segments now possible

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly designed computational method has proven its usefulness in counting copies of duplicated genome sequences and in doing initial assessments of their contents, according to a study to be published Aug. ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists develop technique to determine ethnic origin of stem cell lines

An international team of scientists led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists genetically increase algae biomass by more than 50 percent

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

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers help find natural products potential of frankia

Soil-dwelling bacteria of the genus Frankia have the potential to produce a multitude of natural products, including antibiotics, herbicides, pigments, anticancer agents, and other useful products, according to an article ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers develop new way to fuse cells

MIT engineers have developed a new, highly efficient way to pair up cells so they can be fused together into a hybrid cell. The new technique should make it much easier for scientists to study what happens ...

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created Jan 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Suggesting genes' friends, Facebook-style

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), both in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed a new method that uncovers the combined effects of genes. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A better way to count molecules discovered

(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

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mathematical innovation turns blood draw into information gold mine

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a software algorithm that could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New methods identify thousands of new DNA sequences missing from reference map of human genome

(PhysOrg.com) -- A person can have one or more copies, or no copy at all, of a particular DNA sequence, which may account for why these sequences were absent from the reference genome.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Young age at first drink may affect genes and risk for alcoholism

The age at which a person takes a first drink may influence genes linked to alcoholism, making the youngest drinkers the most susceptible to severe problems.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Powerful systems biology

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

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0