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A long-held assumption confirmed: We can learn a lot from other species' genes

Researchers at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute have confirmed the long-held belief that studying the genes we share with other animals is useful. The study, published ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Evolution during human colonizations

Most human populations are the product of a series of range expansions having occurred since modern humans left Africa some 50,000 years ago to colonize the rest of the world, but how have these processes influenced today's ...

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

From blue whales to earthworms, a common mechanism gives shape to living beings

Why don't our arms grow from the middle of our bodies? The question isn't as trivial as it appears. Vertebrae, limbs, ribs, tailbone ... in only two days, all these elements take their place in the embryo, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (24) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Untangling the life sciences

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Dr. Michael Stadler and his Computational Biology group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research became a member laboratory of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover new genetic sub-code

In a multidisciplinary approach, Professor Yves Barral, from the Biology Department at ETH Zurich and the computer scientists Dr. Gina Cannarozzi and Professor Gaston Gonnet, from the Computer Science Department of ETH Zurich ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Grid computing for the masses

(PhysOrg.com) -- Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could soon be put to more mundane ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New computational tool for cancer treatment

Many human tumors express indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an enzyme which mediates an immune-escape in several cancer types. Researchers in the Molecular Modeling group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solving the Nuclear Pore Puzzle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computational biochemist Frank Alber compares determining the architecture of a macromolecular machine to solving a jigsaw puzzle.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stroma genomic signature predicts resistance to anthracyclin-based chemotherapy in breast cancer

Researchers at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research in Molecular Oncology in Lausanne have developed a new test to predict how breast cancer patients respond to chemotherapy, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein misprediction uncovered by new technique

A new bioinformatics tool is capable of identifying and correcting abnormal, incomplete and mispredicted protein annotations in public databases. The MisPred tool, described today in the open access journal BMC Bioinformatics, curren ...

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created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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