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Sequencing
Sequencing: is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence - the order of nucleotides in DNA. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
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JUN 30, 2016Genetics & Genomics
In the world of malaria infection, Plasmodium falciparum parasites will always be queen to their less lethal cousin, Pla ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 29, 2016Health & Medicine
For not completely understood reasons, certain genetic and environmental factors influence the body’s immune syste ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 28, 2016Microbiology
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health just published a detailed survey of Boston’s subway-dwel ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUN 28, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Bipolar disorder affects millions of Americans, and although it isn’t always the case, it can be very severe. In a ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 28, 2016Microbiology
Carbon fixation is the vital function plants, algae and some bacteria perform in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosp ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 27, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Almost 80,000 people die each year worldwide due to brain inflammation diseases, and it’s hard to know how many of ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 26, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
New work published in Molecular Psychiatry now reports an association of CNV and schizophrenia. In collaboration wi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 24, 2016Cancer
Rare cancers account for about 25% of cancer in adults and about 10% of pediatric cancer cases. Unfortunately, prognosis ...Written By: Cassidy ReichJUN 22, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
After a cold virus (rhinovirus) gets into our bodies it must get access to our cells in order to release its RNA and mul ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 21, 2016Immunology
What do alpacas have that we don’t? Single-domain antibody fragments. Other camelids have them as well, and there ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 21, 2016Videos
There are several hypotheses for the widely known phenomenon of contagious yawning. One of these is physiological hypoth ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 20, 2016Microbiology
A team of researchers at Harvard has made a revolutionary proposition to the world of molecular biology. They suggest th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 17, 2016Microbiology
Investigators at Baylor College of Medicine have reported in Cell that they reversed social deficits in mice by adding o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 16, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Some mutations in the DNA are harmless, and a person could go their entire life with the mutation and never know. Other ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 14, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers at two German research facilities, the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and Helmholtz Zentrum M ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 13, 2016Cancer
With the advancement of sequencing technologies, scientists are able to uncover more about the genetic basis of diseases ...JUN 10, 2016Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR-Cas9 is the discovery that took the scientific community by storm, the technology of the century. In a new study ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 08, 2016Immunology
There’s a protein that signals the immune system not to kill certain cells. This action could be preventing autoim ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 08, 2016Cancer
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden recently announced the discovery of two new types of childhood blood cancers. T ...JUN 07, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Long regions of seemingly unimportant strands of DNA were named ‘junk DNA’ and long thought to be unimportan ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 07, 2016Microbiology
There’s no such thing as sterile. That’s my opinion, at least. Researchers from the University of North Caro ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUN 06, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that the human genome instructs our bodies on what proteins to make using molecules called ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 05, 2016Microbiology
Scientists have begun to voice concerns about a perceived lack of data reproducibility. A pillar of the scientific metho ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 03, 2016Immunology
While the immune system does act as a multi-faceted protective system when dangerous bacteria and viruses come knocking, ...Written By: Kara Marker
JUN 30, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
In the world of malaria infection, Plasmodium falciparum parasites will always be queen to their less lethal cousin, Pla
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 29, 2016
Health & Medicine
For not completely understood reasons, certain genetic and environmental factors influence the body’s immune syste
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 28, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health just published a detailed survey of Boston’s subway-dwel
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 28, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Bipolar disorder affects millions of Americans, and although it isn’t always the case, it can be very severe. In a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 28, 2016
Microbiology
Carbon fixation is the vital function plants, algae and some bacteria perform in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 27, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Almost 80,000 people die each year worldwide due to brain inflammation diseases, and it’s hard to know how many of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 26, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
New work published in Molecular Psychiatry now reports an association of CNV and schizophrenia. In collaboration wi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 24, 2016
Cancer
Rare cancers account for about 25% of cancer in adults and about 10% of pediatric cancer cases. Unfortunately, prognosis
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
JUN 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
After a cold virus (rhinovirus) gets into our bodies it must get access to our cells in order to release its RNA and mul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 21, 2016
Immunology
What do alpacas have that we don’t? Single-domain antibody fragments. Other camelids have them as well, and there
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 21, 2016
Videos
There are several hypotheses for the widely known phenomenon of contagious yawning. One of these is physiological hypoth
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 20, 2016
Microbiology
A team of researchers at Harvard has made a revolutionary proposition to the world of molecular biology. They suggest th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2016
Microbiology
Investigators at Baylor College of Medicine have reported in Cell that they reversed social deficits in mice by adding o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 16, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Some mutations in the DNA are harmless, and a person could go their entire life with the mutation and never know. Other
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 14, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers at two German research facilities, the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and Helmholtz Zentrum M
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 13, 2016
Cancer
With the advancement of sequencing technologies, scientists are able to uncover more about the genetic basis of diseases
...
JUN 10, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR-Cas9 is the discovery that took the scientific community by storm, the technology of the century. In a new study
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 08, 2016
Immunology
There’s a protein that signals the immune system not to kill certain cells. This action could be preventing autoim
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 08, 2016
Cancer
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden recently announced the discovery of two new types of childhood blood cancers. T
...
JUN 07, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Long regions of seemingly unimportant strands of DNA were named ‘junk DNA’ and long thought to be unimportan
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 07, 2016
Microbiology
There’s no such thing as sterile. That’s my opinion, at least. Researchers from the University of North Caro
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 06, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that the human genome instructs our bodies on what proteins to make using molecules called
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 05, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists have begun to voice concerns about a perceived lack of data reproducibility. A pillar of the scientific metho
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 03, 2016
Immunology
While the immune system does act as a multi-faceted protective system when dangerous bacteria and viruses come knocking,
...
Written By:
Kara Marker