George Bush Sings Glory to Open Source

The truth behind the new bill signed into law by President Bush on 26 December 2007, which states that the findings of NIH-funded research must be made freely available to the public within one year of publication. But all is not Hunky dory , as more obvious once you go through the complete text of [...]

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year , um now that may not be politically correct statement, as many say it has to be Happy Holidays and Happy New Year. But I just wanted to wish everyone pure unadultered happy holiday wishes and greetings

CombiMatrix Molecular Diagnostics Launches Microarray Test for Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder

CombiMatrix  has completed the clinical validation of the  BAC array CGH based clinical microarray tests. ATScan is designed to detect known genomic copy-number variations  associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder and this test is now available to physicians and consumers.

Cryptography with DNA binary strands

Biotechnological methods can be used for cryptography. DNA binary strands can be used for steganography to provide rapid encryption and decryption. It is shown that DNA steganography based on DNA binary strands is secure under the assumption that an interceptor has the same technological capabilities as sender and receiver of encrypted messages. I thought this [...]

DNA-based security solutions to Prevent fraud and theft

Applied DNA Solutions is NewYork company that offers DNA-based security solutions to Prevent fraud and theft Applied DNA Sciences’ technology has been utilized to successfully mark nearly 1 billion items including DVDs and CDs, fine art, prestige wine, luxury and personal care goods botanical DNA encryption, embedment and authentication solutions that can help protect companies, [...]

MIT team discovers new DNA modification in bacteria acting as DNA Bookmark

Researchers from MIT have discovered that bacterial genes, known as the dnd gene cluster, gives bacteria the ability to employ DNA modification by adding sulfur to the sugar-phosphate DNA backbone as a phosphorothioate, The same method used in laboratories worldwide to modify synthetic oligonucleotide.Why would bacteria conserve this system which requires five enzymes, each with [...]

Record songs onto a Bacteria- yes Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory can claim to use bacteria as an ipod storage device

Researchers Store children’s song It’s a Small World on bacteria and recovered it from the 100th Generation Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used artificial DNA sequences to encode portions of the text of the children’s song It’s a Small World, added the sequences to bacteria DNA, allowed the bacteria to multiply, then extracted the [...]

Silicon Microarray technology receives award for application product of the year 2007

Parallel Synthesis Technologies’s Silicon Microarray technology has received the Small Times 2007 Best of Small Tech Award for application product of the year. NanoCon International conference Silicon Microarray technology is a set of micromachined silicon pin tools for printing DNA or protein microarrays. The identically micromachined printing tools, which can produce microarrays containing up to [...]

Gmail adds coloured labels

I have blurred the images, but I had access to almost every beta features of gmail, strangely its not my official email that gets these features, but the email I use for receiving newsletters and obviously a lot of spam an average 500 email a day get into my inbox . Though my official email [...]