News tagged with transcriptional profiling

Study demonstrates cells can acquire new functions through transcriptional regulatory network

Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have successfully developed and demonstrated a new experimental technique for producing cells with specific functions through the artificial reconstruction of transcriptional ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists complete the world's first in-depth study of the malaria parasite genome

Groundbreaking research done at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) School of Biological Sciences (SBS) could lead to the development of more potent drugs or a vaccine for malaria, which is transmitted to ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene linked with human kidney aging

A gene has been associated with human kidney aging, according to researchers from Stanford University, the National Institute on Aging, the MedStar Research Institute, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. In work ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Jarid2 may break the Polycomb silence

Historically, fly and human Polycomb proteins were considered textbook exemplars of transcriptional repressors, or proteins that silence the process by which DNA gives rise to new proteins. Now, work by a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Judges, journalists clash over courtroom tweets

(AP) -- Getting news from a big trial once took days, moving at the speed of a carrier pigeon or an express pony. The telegraph and telephone cut that time dramatically, as did live television broadcasts.

Technology / Internet

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

Researchers create molecular Braille to identify DNA molecules

Researchers at UCLA and New York University have developed a method to detect sequence differences in individual DNA molecules by taking nanoscopic pictures of the molecules themselves.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Analyzing life on a molecular level

Three faculty members in USC Dornsife’s Department of Biological Sciences received research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and apply innovative methods to analyze data ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Researchers find extensive RNA editing in human transcriptome

In a new study published online in Nature Biotechnology, researchers from BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, reported the evidence of extensive RNA editing in a human cell line by analysis of RNA-seq data, demons ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Weightlessness weighs heavy on genes -- a fly's perspective

On Earth all biology is subjected to gravity. Some biological systems require gravity for correct orientation (geotropism: plants grow up, roots grow down). In the absence of gravity even human biology is affected: astronauts ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Improving crops from the roots up

Research involving scientists at The University of Nottingham has taken us a step closer to breeding hardier crops that can better adapt to different environmental conditions and fight off attack from parasites.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Aging human bodies and aging human oocytes run on different clocks

Reproductive and somatic aging use different molecular mechanisms that show little overlap between the types of genes required to keep oocytes healthy and the genes that generally extend life span, according to Coleen Murphy, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists pitch in to help keep salad mixes safe to eat

It's no wonder that packaged salad mixes are a produce section favorite. They offer convenience, selection, and quality, and perhaps best of all, they free us from the chore of washing and chopping, slicing, or shredding ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extensive protein interaction network controls gene regulation

The genes of a cell are like the 88 keys of a piano. To play chords and music, however, the keys must be activated in exact combinations by a pianist's hands. Those hands represent the coregulators of a cell that simultaneously ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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