News tagged with research tool

Nanotechnology breakthrough could dramatically improve medical tests

A laboratory test used to detect disease and perform biological research could be made more than 3 million times more sensitive, according to researchers who combined standard biological tools with a breakthrough ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

Researchers announce GenomeSpace environment to connect genomic tools

Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced that GenomeSpace, a software environment that seamlessly connects genomic analysis tools, is now available to the scientific community. During her keynote ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More companies quit blogging, go with Facebook instead

With the emergence of social media, more companies are replacing blogs with nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improved method for protein sequence comparisons is faster, more accurate, sensitive

Lightning fast and yet highly sensitive: HHblits is a new software tool for protein research which promises to significantly improve the functional analysis of proteins. A team of computational biologists led by Dr. Johannes ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First-of-its-kind search engine will speed materials research

Researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) jointly launched today a groundbreaking new online tool called the ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

'Synthetic' chromosome permits repid, on-demand 'evolution' of yeast

In the quest to understand genomes -- how they're built, how they're organized and what makes them work -- a team of Johns Hopkins researchers has engineered from scratch a computer-designed yeast chromosome ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Researchers overcome major obstacle for stem cell therapies and research

Stem cells show great potential to enable treatments for conditions such as spinal injuries or Lou Gehrig's disease, and also as research tools. One of the greatest problems slowing such work is that researchers have found ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research confirms it's a small world, after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA-led research team has confirmed what Walt Disney told us all along: Earth really is a small world, after all.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Ions control shape of nanofibers grown on clear substrate

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a new way to develop straight carbon nanofibers on a transparent substrate. Growing such nanofiber coatings is important for use in novel biomedical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Neiker-Tecnalia to adapt software to undertake life-cycle analysis of wine and grape-growing

Researchers at the Basque Institute For Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker-Tecnalia) are to develop a computer tool - already tried out in other sectors – applied to the requisites of the wine and grape-growing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

From detonation to diapers: Los Alamos computer codes at core of advanced manufacturing tools

Computational tools developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory to help ensure the reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons deterrent in the absence of testing are helping industry giants ensure the reliability of their ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Bosch boosts solar power investment

The German industrial group Bosch, widely known for electric appliances, power tools and auto parts, is investing more and more in photovoltaic systems.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The face of a frog: Time-lapse video reveals never-before-seen bioelectric pattern

For the first time, Tufts University biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that reveals ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Online tools are increasing the speed at which scientists make discoveries

Not all research papers receive their own hashtag on Twitter. But #arseniclife (as it was dubbed in tweets) was no ordinary paper.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Two unsuspected proteins may hold the key to creating artificial chromosomes

Whitehead Institute scientists report that two proteins once thought to have only supporting roles, are the true "stars" of the kinetochore assembly process in human cells.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast