Monthly Archives: November 2011

Latest advances in DNA sequencing technology

In many scientific fields, modern research relies heavily on the use of DNA analysis to explore hypotheses at a genetic and genomic level. With such a strong dependence on these technologies, it is no wonder that the field of genetic analysis is rapidly advancing and producing increasingly effective and efficient technologies and methods. Following the… Read more »

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Evolution Day

Today is Evolution Day, marking the anniversary of the first publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in 1859. Darwin’s work is widely considered to be the very foundation of evolutionary biology, introducing the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations by means of natural selection.  Darwin proposed that all life… Read more »

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GigaScience – a repository for large datasets

The recent explosion of genomics technology has revolutionized biology, but it is only really of use if people are able to analyze and use the resulting sequences. Storage of such vast quantities of data is problematic, as the ongoing uncertainty over the future of NCBI’s arm of the Sequence Read Archive shows (SRA). The BGI,… Read more »

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HIV-1 Keystone Meeting, Whistler, Canada, Mar 26-31, 2012

Eric Freed has asked me to post the following announcement about the HIV-1 Keystone meeting in Whistler, Canada.  I would encouraged interested colleague to attend this meeting or to contact Eric (efreed@mail.nih.gov) for more information.    Announcing Keystone Symposia’s Meeting on “Frontiers in HIV Pathogenesis, Replication and Eradication”   Apply for a scholarship, submit an abstract and… Read more »

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Why grass (and weeds) may be greener

An interesting headline of No-Kill Farming: The rise of low-cost low-carbon biofuels through continuous harvest, took the lead in Biofuels Digest earlier this month. In an essay, Jim Lane reviewed the companies that are taking the first step in creating fuel production systems that do not need arable land, including algae, cyanobacteria and plant cell… Read more »

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Post-genomic outlooks on neuropsychiatric disease

Two forward-looking views of research into neuropsychiatric disease and its treatment are published today in BMC Biology. Aiden Corvin predicts how the identification of susceptibility genes may transform the diagnosis and treatment of patients who are today classified as suffering from schizophrenia on the basis of purely clinical criteria. Kevin Mitchell, Josh Huang, Bita Moghaddam and Akira… Read more »

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