News tagged with regulatory code

New method reveals parts of bacterium genome essential to life

A team at the Stanford University School of Medicine has cataloged, down to the letter, exactly what parts of the genetic code are essential for survival in one bacterial species, Caulobacter crescentus.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists find way to catalog all that goes wrong in a cancer cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong," giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Novel epigenetic markers of melanoma may herald new treatments for patients

Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer, diagnosed in more than 50,000 new patients in the United States annually. While the rate of incidences continues to rise, survival rate has not improved and the race is on ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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New technology speeds up DNA 'rewriting' and measures the effects of the changes in living cells

Our ability to "read" DNA has made tremendous progress in the past few decades, but the ability to understand and alter the genetic code, that is, to "rewrite" the DNA-encoded instructions, has lagged behind. A new Weizmann ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google files patent claim against Microsoft, Nokia (Update)

(AP) — Google lashed out at Microsoft and Nokia in a regulatory complaint, accusing them of illegally feeding mobile patents to a technology troll scavenging for billions of dollars in licensing fees that threaten to ...

Technology / Business

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A wake-up call for manufacturing

(Phys.org) -- U.S. factories produce about 75 percent of what the country consumes, but the right decisions by both business and political leaders could push that to 95 percent, say University of Michigan researchers.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code

Imagine reading an entire book, but then realizing that your glasses did not allow you to distinguish "g" from "q." What details did you miss? Geneticists faced a similar problem with the recent discovery ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Zuckerberg's Facebook story is study in contrasts

(AP) -- When Hollywood set out to tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, it enjoyed the flexibility of portraying a man who, despite his social network's worldwide reach, was all but unknown ...

Technology / Business

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Yahoo confirms misleading info on new CEO's resume

(AP) -- A disgruntled Yahoo shareholder questioned the qualifications and integrity of recently hired CEO Scott Thompson after exposing a misrepresentation about the executive's education.

Technology / Business

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World?s most northerly bottlenose dolphin population stable, report concludes

The world's most northerly resident population of bottlenose dolphins is stable and may even be increasing, according to new research.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'More carrot, less stick' needed to regulate the press

A new report published by Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) argues that a 'carrot rather than stick' approach might be recommended in the framing of any future press regulation.

Technology / Internet

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doubling the information from the Double Helix

(Phys.org) -- Our genes control many aspects of who we are — from the colour of our hair to our vulnerability to certain diseases — but how are the genes, and consequently the proteins they make ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Zero interest and growing fast

From humble beginnings, Islamic finance is now a trillion dollar industry and growing at a rate some in the West find alarming. A new analysis suggests it can be accommodated by the existing global financial ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4


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