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Researchers Create New Way To Locate Big Genetic Variants

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers, analyzing hundreds of billions of bits of genetic information, have collated and standardized 2,000 signposts that mark the boundaries of large blocks of human genomic variants.


A facial expression is worth a thousand words

A facial expression is worth a thousand words

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moving pictures are more suitable to interpret the mood of a person than a static photograph.


Simplest bacteria unravelled at the cellular level

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Even the simplest cell appears to be far more complex than researchers had imagined. In a series of three articles in the journal Science, researchers including Vera van Noort at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...


Cockroaches offer inspiration for running robots

Cockroaches offer inspiration for running robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call "bioinspiration" ...


There may be a 'party' in your genes

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetics play a pivotal role in shaping how individual's identify with political parties , according to an article in a recent issue of Political Research Quarterly, the official journal of the Western Political Science Associ ...


Molecular chaperone keeps bacterial proteins from slow-dancing to destruction

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Just like teenagers at a prom, proteins are tended by chaperones whose job it is to prevent unwanted interactions among immature clients. And at the molecular level, just as at the high school gym level, it's a job that usually ...


Student sleuths using DNA reveal zoo of 95 species in NYC homes -- and new evidence of food fraud

Student sleuths using DNA reveal zoo of 95 species in NYC homes -- and new evidence of food fraud

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 5

Two New York City high school students exploring their homes using the latest high-tech DNA analysis techniques were astonished to discover a veritable zoo of 95 animal species surrounding them, in everything ...


Seeing without looking

Seeing without looking

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Like a spotlight that illuminates an otherwise dark scene, attention brings to mind specific details of our environment while shutting others out. A new study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...


Researchers find clues to why some continue to eat when full

Researchers find clues to why some continue to eat when full

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief - just ask those who cruise grocery store aisles on an empty stomach, only to go home with a full basket and an empty wallet.


Splitting fluorescent protein helps image clusters in live cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it's way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the ...



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