New Biomarker Predicts Long-Term Risk of Infection and Death
GlycA levels in blood can tell whether a person has an increased risk of severe infection. The finding by researchers from the Universities of Oulu...
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Computational biology in practice: pipelines, algorithms and the software used to make sense of biological data.
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Genomic and Structural Big Data to Identify Cancer Drivers
A research team lead by the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has identified more than 100 new cancer drivers using the power of...
Bioinformatics
Microsoft Smart Traps to Capture Mosquitoes and Analyze Pathogenic DNA
Microsoft has launched Project Premonition, an initiative that will identify pathogens in mosquitoes to foresee worldwide distribution of transmitable diseases and prevent them. The IT company will use...
Bioinformatics
Illumina Launches Helix, App Store for Genetic Analysis
Illumina announced formation of a customer focused company that seeks to provide affordable sequencing and analysis tools marketplace through third party providers at affordable costs....
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First Epigenetic Mechanism Involving Histone Tails Solved at Atomic Level
Researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the University of Cambridge, and New York University have discovered the structural mechanism of chromatin...
Basic Research
Fractal Globule Model of Chromatin Packing Reinforced
Scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University have strengthened the fractal globule model of chromatin packing. In their Physical Review Letters paper, the researchers present a...
Basic Research
Accurate and Simple Elastic Model of RNA Dynamics
Researchers from the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy have found a simple but accurate method to study RNA dynamics. In...
Basic Research
A New Software to Improve CRISPR/Cas9 Targeting
Scientists from Harvard and University of California have designed an online tool to optimize CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 targeting. The researchers compared...
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