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Researchers develop whole genome sequencing approach for mutation discovery

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Stowers Institute's Hawley Lab and Molecular Biology Facility have developed a "whole-genome sequencing approach" to mapping mutations in fruit flies. The novel methodology promises to reduce the time and effort required ...





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Prediction of RNA pseudoknots using heuristic modeling with mapping and sequential folding

Biology /

created Sep 19, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An algorithm utilizing structure mapping and thermodynamics is introduced for RNA pseudoknot prediction. The method finds the minimum free energy in the context of the biological folding direction (5’ to 3’) of RNA sequences.


New cheaper method for mapping disease genes

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have developed a new DNA-sequencing method that is much cheaper than those currently in use in laboratories. They hope that this new method will make it possible ...


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Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Genome ID Method Extended to Humans

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created Oct 13, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A mathematical discovery has extended the reach of a novel genome mapping method to humans, potentially giving cancer biology a faster and more cost-effective tool than traditional DNA sequencing.


New approach to measuring carbon in forests

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 1

CSIRO is collaborating in a NASA-funded project, using a CSIRO-designed instrument, to help develop new methods of measuring forest carbon stores on a large scale.


Amazonian indigenous culture demonstrates a universal mapping of number onto space

Other Sciences / Other

created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (28) | comments 3

The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics, is universal, says a study published this week in the journal Science, but the form of this universal mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The fi ...


Gene tests and brain imaging reveal early dementia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 06, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Dementia diseases develop insidiously and are generally discovered when the memory has already started to deteriorate. New research form Karolinska Institutet shows, however, that approaching Alzheimer's can be detected several ...


Researchers bring new brain mapping capabilities to desktops of scientists worldwide

Biology / Other

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mapping the billions of connections in the brain is a grand challenge in neuroscience. The current method for mapping interconnected brain cells involves the use of room-size microscopes known as transmission electron microscopes ...


Snowmelt monitored in the Baltic Sea watershed region in near real time

Snowmelt monitored in the Baltic Sea watershed region in near real time

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As spring melt of winter snow is underway in the Baltic Sea watershed region, satellites are monitoring and mapping the snow melting process to help local authorities manage water supplies and predict and prepare ...



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