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It's relatively easy to collect massive amounts of data on microbes. But the files are so large that it takes days to simply transmit them to other researchers and months to analyze once they are received. Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a new computational technique that relieves the logjam that these 'big data' issues create.
Posted: Aug 1st, 2012
Read moreThree related studies help uncover the rules governing gene transcription.
Posted: Aug 1st, 2012
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Beneath the surface of the earth, an influential community of microbes mingles with plant roots. In the first large-scale analysis of those communities, scientists have now catalogued and compared the hundreds of types of bacteria that associate with the roots of the model plant Arabidopsis under various conditions.
Posted: Aug 1st, 2012
Read moreThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year $999,531 grant to Virginia Tech to optimize the laboratory processes used to make custom DNA molecules with the tools and methods of industrial engineering.
Posted: Jul 26th, 2012
Read moreDodder vines are parasitic plants that suck water, nutrients and information from other plants as they spread over them. Plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, have now shown that they can make plants resistant to dodder by attacking the junctions where the parasite taps into the host.
Posted: Jul 24th, 2012
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Researchers create moving model, using silicone polymer and heart muscle cells.
Posted: Jul 23rd, 2012
Read moreA mammoth effort has produced a complete computational model of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, opening the door for biological computer-aided design.
Posted: Jul 21st, 2012
Read moreFederal agencies have started taking steps to address the recommendations in a 2010 report from the presidential bioethics commission to improve the governance of synthetic biology research and development, though the government has not fully addressed any of the report recommendations, according to a scorecard tracking the efforts.
Posted: Jul 18th, 2012
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It's a project 500 million years in the making. Only this time, instead of playing on a movie screen in Jurassic Park, it?s happening in a lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Posted: Jul 11th, 2012
Read moreA study led by Associate Prof. Kenji Nakahara at Hokkaido University in Japan has found a component in tobacco that makes crop immune systems more resistant to viral attacks.
Posted: Jul 11th, 2012
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How a transport protein obtains its driving force from the energy storage molecule ATP, has been tracked dynamically by RUB researchers. Using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy, they measured the structural changes in the bacterial membrane protein MsbA and its interaction partner ATP.
Posted: Jul 11th, 2012
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Biologists? capacity for generating genomic data is increasing more rapidly than computing power. A new algorithm will help them keep up.
Posted: Jul 11th, 2012
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Certain kinds of bacteria are adept at converting waste into useful energy. These microorganisms are presently being applied to the task, through an innovative technology known as a microbial fuel cell or MFC.
Posted: Jul 5th, 2012
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