Transplant Patients Could Live Free of Anti-Rejection Drugs

Scientists from the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a pattern of gene expression shared by a small group of patients who beat the odds and remained healthy for years without medication, after undergoing Organ transplant. The findings made by Minnie Sarwal, MD, PhD, a pediatric nephrologist at [...]

IS Microarray facing the DOOM….Invading microarray turf……….

ChIP-sequencing (ChIPSeq) – a combination of chromatin immunoprecipitation and next-generation, or parallel, sequencing. The feat was performed “with a speed and precision that goes beyond what has been achieved with previous technologies,” comments University of Washington geneticist Stanley Fields, in an accompanying essay in Science. hIP is a well-established lab technique to identify those specific [...]

New horizons ahead

Its been two years since I have been with Ocimum Biosolutions ,the India HQ company serving bioinformatics and microarray market in US with office in Indianapolis and another lab in netherlands, I have been working in the business development of the company’s microarray arm in US which was acquired from MWG biotech, we had tasted [...]

microRNA is older than we think

The scientist reports that MicroRNAs control gene expression in a single-celled alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii the  first single-celled organism in which microRNAs have been discovered.  The finding suggests that microRNAs evolved earlier than previously thought, according to the authors. The study published in Nature   by researchers David Baulcombe of the Sainsbury Laboratory in UK

Genographic Project

National geographic has got some very good presentations to  overview of genetics, a good presentation called genographic project  i came across it while writing my article on transposons and the new sequencing project of opposum

Search Engine for Life science Data

NextBio is a web-based scientific data search engine that offers instant access, search and collaboration across a vast repository of life sciences information

Video in Laboratory

I had mentioned earlier a number websites, that offer scientific videos though many researchers have their own restriants when it comes to using technology whetehr it is open source or peer reviewd journal or blogs itself. Perhaps groups was the only social content driven concept that got off the ground when it comes to science [...]

Gene splicing, SNP, Jumping genes, Transposons

I was looking for an easy way to explain DNA, Gene splicing, SNP, Jumping genes, Transposons and such to a non biologist without using too much technical jargons. And then I came across a study by University of Cambridge about how human mind reacts and learns written text , JUst see if you can read [...]

Theranostics-Genetics Testing for Clinical Diagnostics for Personalized Medicine

Theranostics is the term used to describe the proposed process of diagnostic therapy for individual patients – to test them for possible reaction to taking a new medication and to tailor a treatment for them based on the test results or in plain english Personalized Medicine. Personalized medicine is the use of detailed information about [...]

i-Kode to take control of your scientific mail and email.

 Practicallly I use the Foward feature of GMAIL to send my mails to the my corporate email address this I can make sure that no has my Id but also When I leave the company I still get to have acess to all the newsletters i received and I can even forward it to the [...]

Moleculare Frontiers Intiative for researchers of future

Molecular Frontiers is a global effort to promote the understanding and appreciation of molecular science in society THe initiative offers an arena for budding biologists and life science researchers of the future. Wish them all the best. Some of the interesting aspects are Catalytic Forum think tank to discuss and analyze current scientific developments with [...]

next generation literature awareness tool

Another science website that seems to be as taking its cues from web2.0 anthology. Faculty of 1000 Biology is the next generation literature awareness tool. It is a revolutionary new online research service that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of [...]

from youtube to DNAtube

I would like to introduce you newly found SCIENTIFIC VIDEO site which is www.DnaTube.com the scientific video site In this site, you can upload and share your scientific videos, watch videos, experminets, animations and many otherinformation about biology, chemistry. http://www.dnatube.com

DNA computer for diagnostics

REsearchers at columbia university medical centre newyork have developed a DNA-based computer that could lead to faster and more accurate diagnosis of west nile virus and bird flu. It is the first “medium -scale integrated molecular circuit” it is the most powerful comuting device of its type. Joanne Macdonald a virologist at columbia’s dapertment of [...]

Notes to a young computational biologist

Bosco Ho a Postdoctoral scholar writes an excellent post about Notes to a young computational biologist   .Bosco puts down his postdoc years of experience into facts  that are relevant to not only those just starting out in computational biology but for other experince people too his post is published at http://boscoh.com/protein/notes-to-a-young-computational-biologist

Defra funds team to build microarray biochip to detect disease outbreaks

A single test for more than 600 deadly viruses is being developed by a group of Defra-funded scientists, offering the possibility of spotting a disease outbreak in hours rather than days. The microarray, which is being led by the Central Science Laboratory near York, with £1.5m funding from Defra, will detect viruses that affect humans, [...]

Online Data sharing for scientists

Brent Edwards director of the Starkey Hearing Research Center in Berkeley, California, who blogs on innovation in science is writing his blog about an article on Nature magazine on online data sharing. Brent comments about the potential of new online data sharing sites such as Swivel and IBM’s Many Eyes . Accoding to the Nature [...]

its not so much of junk DNA- University of Oxford Scientists discoveres Cancer cure with it

 Junk DNA is not junk after all Recently, scientists at the University of Oxford have discovered that ‘junk’ genetic material can switch off cancer tumours, preventing them from growing. By using RNA to switch off a gene involved in controlling cell division, Oxford University scientists may have found a role for RNA in developing new [...]

Yahoo answers- Interact with the President of India

Thats not really a big surprise considering he himself is a scientist, Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad the President of India who is also the commander in chief of the Army,Navy and Airforce of India, and is key force for India’s nuclear and Space power and technology uses, yahoo answer so that he can listen and [...]

Microarray based Bio Detection Technologies

DNA microarray detection of antimicrobial resistance genes in diverse bacteria Study published at http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17459830 High throughput genotyping is essential for studying the spread of multiple antimicrobial resistance. A test oligonucleotide microarray designed to detect 94 antimicrobial resistance genes was constructed and successfully used to identify antimicrobial resistance genes in control strains. The microarray was then [...]