Exposure to potentially harmful chemicals is a reality of life. Our ancestors, faced with naturally occurring toxins, evolved mechanisms to detoxify and expel damaging substances. In the modern world, our bodies regularly ...
Molecular & Computational Biology
Mar 14, 2019
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Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a mathematical model that sheds new light on the fundamental processes of gene expression in cells.
Molecular & Computational Biology
Nov 19, 2018
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A novel mathematical approach has uncovered that some animal cells have robust 12-hour cycles of genetic activity, in addition to circadian or 24-hour cycles. The method, published in the journal PLOS ONE, assessed the periodicity ...
Molecular & Computational Biology
Sep 20, 2018
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In the field of systems biology, "big data" refers to the massive amounts of information that can be collected, stored and analyzed computationally and which can reveal previously unseen patterns or associations important ...
Biotechnology
Aug 20, 2018
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Whether a worm, a human or a blue whale, all multicellular life begins as a single-celled egg.
Biotechnology
Apr 26, 2018
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A machine learning program developed by an international team of researchers may help pharmaceutical companies produce higher quantities of cutting-edge drugs needed for medical treatments.
Biochemistry
Dec 22, 2017
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An international research team including Vasily Ramensky, a bioinformatics scientist at MIPT's Genome Engineering Laboratory, has classified the six species of African green monkeys based on their genomes, studied their genetic ...
Biotechnology
Dec 05, 2017
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Researchers from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have teamed up with Stanford University and Tsinghua University scientists to successfully model data on gene regulation ...
Biotechnology
Jun 07, 2017
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Reduced extracellular transport of molecules may explain changes in bacterial behavior in space, according to a study published November 2, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Luis Zea from the University of Colorado, ...
Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2016
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Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have developed a free online platform that uses a crowdsourcing approach to make public gene expression ...
Biotechnology
Jun 20, 2016
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