Bioinformatics
Researchers Write Languages to Design Synthetic Living Systems
Researchers at Virginia Tech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer-aided design tool to create genetic languages...
Bioinformatics Approach Helps Researchers Find New Use for Old Drug
Developing and testing a new anti-cancer drug can cost billions of dollars and take many years of research. Finding an...
The DNA sat nav: find your ancestor’s home from 1,000 years ago
Tracing where your DNA was formed over 1,000 years ago is now possible due to a revolutionary technique developed by...
Y Chromosome Appeared 180 Million Years Ago
Man or woman? Male or female? In humans and other mammals, the difference between sexes depends on one single element...
DNA fix for school timetables
Scientists in Russia plan to use DNA - our genetic material - to help them solve one of the perennial...
The Cyborgs Era Has Started
Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great...
New bioinformatics tool to visualize transcriptomes
ZENBU, a new, freely available bioinformatics tool developed at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technology in Japan, enables researchers...
Breakthrough in hybrid species science
Massey University scientists have discovered a universal law that explains how hybrid species survive and thrive. Massey University computational biologist...
Supercomputer dramatically accelerates rapid genome analysis
Although the time and cost of sequencing an entire human genome has plummeted, analyzing the resulting three billion base pairs...
Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing
Unexpected behaviour in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new...
Bioinformatics Breakthrough: High Quality Transcriptome from as Few as Fifty Cells
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of...