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Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and ...





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Data-driven computational method created

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 29, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 0

A U.S. statistician has created a data-driven computational approach that's revealing secrets about the inner Earth, as well as gene expression.


Cells are like robust computational systems

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report today in the online journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each system keeps ...


Mathematical models reveal how organisms transcend the sum of their genes

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Molecular and cellular biologists have made tremendous scientific advances by dissecting apart the functions of individual genes, proteins, and pathways. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...


No such thing as 'junk RNA,' say Pitt researchers

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 5

Tiny strands of RNA previously dismissed as cellular junk are actually very stable molecules that may play significant roles in cellular processes, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...


Novel computational model describes the speed at which HIV escapes the immune response

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created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, have developed a model that illustrates how HIV evades the immune system. The study, published July 18th in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, incorp ...


A novel explanation for a floral genetic mystery

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

Scientists at the University of Jena, Germany have put forth a novel explanation of the evolutionary driving force behind a genetic switching circuit that regulates flower development and survival. The hypothesis, based around ...


Computational Analysis Helps Researchers Understand Emerging H1N1 Flu Strain

Computational Analysis Helps Researchers Understand Emerging H1N1 Flu Strain

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

As part of a broad-based effort to understand the precise genetic make-up of H1N1 - now being referred to as “swine flu” in North America - a group of virologists and computational biologists from Columbia ...


Mechanism related to the onset of various genetic diseases revealed

Biology / Other

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (UAB) have revealed the process by which proteins with a tendency to cause conformational diseases such as amyotrophic ...


New cost-effective means to reconstruct virus populations

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created May 09, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the United States and Switzerland have developed mathematical and statistical tools for reconstructing viral populations using pyrosequencing, a novel and effective technique for sequencing DNA. They describe ...


New 3-D structural model of critical H1N1 protein developed

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Singapore scientists report an evolutionary analysis of a critical protein produced by the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus strain in Biology Direct journal's May 20 issue.



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