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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The UK's Academy of Medical Sciences is calling for greater investment into genome-wide association studies and has offered several recommendations for ways to ensure that GWAS findings will ultimately benefit patients.
Drug discovery has never been easy. No one knows how many plants our ancestors tried — or were poisoned by — before figuring out that willow bark could ease a headache or that aloe could soothe a sunburn.
When the cystic fibrosis gene was found in 1989, therapy seemed around the corner. Two decades on, biologists still have a long way to go, finds Helen Pearson.
Several days after Microsoft completed its acquisition of Rosetta Biosoftware on June 26, the software giant sent a letter to Rosetta customers explaining that it has stopped selling the Rosetta Resolver, Syllego, and Elucidator software and will cease support of the tools in July 2011.
Scientists studying the physical forces generated by cells has created a tiny micron--sized device that measures and manipulates cellular forces as assemblies of living cells reorganize themselves into tissues.
The Forest Lawn cemetery wedged between Griffith Park, Burbank and Toluca Lake calls itself FL Hollywood Hills for marketing purposes, but make no mistake: it's in the San Fernando Valley....
Ay F, Kahveci T, DE Crécy-Lagard V. A fast and accurate algorithm for comparative analysis of metabolic pathways . [ J Bioinform Comput Biol . 2009 Jun;7(3):389-428]: Describes an algorithm for pairwise alignment of metabolic pathways.
The first microsatellite-based genetic linkage map has been published for Schistosoma mansoni, a blood fluke that is known to infect over 90 million people in Africa, the Middle East and the New World. Researchers hope the map will stimulate research and open doors to new advances in combating this neglected human pathogen.
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