Feb

29

Is Bioprinting the Pathway to Human Cloning?

February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment

image credits: Patrick J. Lynch Bioprinting uses a 3D printing device with biological material to create objects; such as replacement human organs. Scientists have already succeeded in printing skin and vertebral tissues, these two experiments have been tested on animals; like the ear growing out of the rats back scenario. However they are still yet [...]

Sep

8

Cloud Computing in Gene Analysis

September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed new software that greatly improves the speed at which scientists can analyze RNA sequencing data. RNA sequencing is used to compare differences in gene expression to identify those genes that switched on or off when, for instance, a particular disease is present. However, [...]

Jul

30

Ingenuity Answers Alpha for Biological and Chemical Questions

July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Ingenuity Systems, the makers of IPA (Ingenuity Pathway Analysis), have just launched Ingenuity Answers (still in alpha version). Ingenuity Answers is an advanced search tool that enables you to quickly and reliably answer specific biological and chemical questions by identifying lists of genes (or other biological and chemical objects) that satisfy particular biological criteria. Ingenuity [...]

Jun

15

Highlighting Key Discoveries: Nature Milestones

June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Nature Milestones highlights key discoveries that have shaped different scientific fields and enables the wider recognition of these classic findings that are often recognized only by those in the field.

May

17

Archaeopteryx: The Dinobird

May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment

X-Rays Reveal Chemical Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs. Researchers have found that a 150 million year old “dinobird” fossil, long thought to contain nothing but fossilized bone and rock, has been hiding remnants of the animal’s original chemistry. Using the bright X-ray beam of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, located at the Department of Energy’s [...]

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