• Welcome to WholeLife Nutrition News

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    Welcome to WholeLife Nutrition News blog designed to be a source of current news and information on

  • Textbook of Biochemistry: With Clinical Correlations.

    Updated: 2010-05-26 17:49:23
    Edited by Thomas M. Devlin. 7th ed. Copyright: 2011. Click for availability: QU 4 T355 2011

  • eCheminfo Predictive Toxicology Workshop in Oxford

    Updated: 2010-05-24 13:43:59

  • A Great Advance in Synthetic Biology: A Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome

    Updated: 2010-05-21 03:43:50
    Big, big news in synthetic biology. Today, the J. Craig Venter Institute released a paper in Science

  • Transient Gene Expression via Agrobacterium

    Updated: 2010-05-17 15:52:43
    The generation of transgenic plants can be a lengthy and difficult process. Transient expression assays have been developed as faster and more convenient alternatives for investigating gene function. These assays often take advantage of the ability of Agrobacterium to transfer foreign DNA into plant cells with intact cell walls. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is, however, [...]

  • Multiple Sclerosis: A long known unknown

    Updated: 2010-05-16 17:06:47
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  • Multiple Sclerosis: A long known unknown

    Updated: 2010-05-16 17:05:34
    Enzymes

  • Physics of gene transcription unveiled

    Updated: 2010-05-16 03:44:27
    (PhysOrg.com) – A research team has made precise measurements of where and how RNA polymerase

  • Chemistry: Why Medicinal?

    Updated: 2010-05-13 09:18:49
    My choice of Ph.D. program was destined to be in biology or chemistry or some combination of the two

  • Quantifying Promoter Strength

    Updated: 2010-05-11 14:41:43
    Using a promoter that can drive expression at an appropriate level is crucial in designing constructs for gene expression. Promoters can be tested via transient or stable transfection. But transfection efficiency in such assays can be low, so promoters are commonly fused to heterologous reporter genes that encode enzymes that can be [...]

  • Distinuished Biomedical Scholar to Speak on Brain Circuitry

    Updated: 2010-05-10 17:33:37
    Hollis Cline, Ph.D. will speak as part of the College’s Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture Series on Thursday, May 20.  Cline’s talk is entitled “Building Brain Circuits,” and will be held in Urmila Sahai Seminar Room (2117 MERF) at 4 pm.  The talk is sponsored by the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. Cline received her Ph.D. [...]

  • Tissue Procurement Core Announces New Communication Tool

    Updated: 2010-05-10 15:32:04
    In an effort to increase communication with investigators, the Tissue Procurement Core Facility has launched a new wiki portal.  The new TissueWiki portal will serve as a way for investigators to leave comments for the Facility, ask questions, or communicate with Facility staff or other investigators utilizing the core’s services. Comments posted on the TissueWiki system [...]

  • Congratulations 2010 Research Week Poster Winners

    Updated: 2010-05-10 15:08:11
    Congratulations to the 2010 Research Week poster session winners!  Both poster sessions were again a large success, featuring over 100 participants each day.  Winners were recognized by College and University leadership April 14 during the annual Research Week awards ceremony. Below, view award winners from the Carver College of Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, [...]

  • Research Week Seminars Available Online

    Updated: 2010-05-10 15:02:48
    In an effort to make Research Week seminars available to all campus investigators, the 2010 talks are now available for viewing online.  Many of the videos utilize a new lecture-capture system recently implemented on the CCOM campus.  The system offers video footage of speakers along side a screen capture of Powerpoint slides and other visual [...]

  • Blog posts tagged with genomics on Nature Network

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    Jump to main content Jump to navigation nature.com homepage Login Search nature network Home Forums Groups Blogs All blogs Recent Posts Recent Comments Tags People Hubs Q A Your Workbench Blogs genomics jump to list of posts tagged with genomics Jump to results Results Result : pages 1 2 3 Next : Title Cloud computing : a new standard platform 1 comment : Date 08 Feb ruary 2009 : Blog corpasfoo Cloud computing is becoming a technology mature . : Title Microbes run the world . It’s that . simple 3 comments : Date 13 Nov ember 2008 : Blog Complex systems science After much research and study of international : Title Genomes for all to see 2 comments : Date 22 Oct ober 2008 : Blog Boston blog The first release of the genome sequences well . : Title European Researchers' Night comic strip 3

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  • Xenopus Imaging

    Updated: 2010-05-03 15:15:27
    The large size and external development of the frog Xenopus laevis make it an ideal system for in vivo imaging of dynamic cellular activity. Xenopus embryos are amenable to simple genetic manipulation techniques including knockdowns and misexpression, as well as transgenesis. The ease of collecting large numbers of embryos and the larger size of [...]

  • Some photos from the eCheminfo drug discovery Oxford 2009 workshop

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  • Our approach to drug design

    Updated: 2010-05-01 08:21:13

  • Staining Protein Gels

    Updated: 2010-04-26 22:20:24
    April’s issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols includes instructions for Rapid Coomassie Blue Staining of Protein Gels. This method is an adaptation of the conventional Coomassie staining protocol described in Staining Proteins in Gels with Coomassie Blue. Coomassie Brilliant Blue R250 (CBR-250) is the most commonly used dye for visualizing proteins because of [...]

  • Progressing Interoperability Goals for Alternative Testing Methods in Predictive Toxicology

    Updated: 2010-04-26 12:26:44

  • SSP’s Scholarly Kitchen Nominated for 2010 Webby Award

    Updated: 2010-04-20 15:07:41
    The other blog where I write, The Scholarly Kitchen, has been nominated for a Webby, a fairly prestigious award in the online world. Since the winner is determined by the voting public, and since we’re up against some seriously stiff competition (including the NY Times and Wall Street Journal), your help would be greatly [...]

  • F.D.A. Says Millions Got Unapproved Drugs, Should the new bioequivalence and bioanalytical guidelines for 2010, be made more stringent

    Updated: 2010-04-14 01:23:49
    Plans by  FDA to Adopt stricter standards for Bioequivalence, Bioavailability for generic drugs could sound trouble for Indian Generic Manufactures. Already most of the smaller companies are finding it difficult to get FDA approval letters. QSR Draft Guidance An industry working group has urged the FDA to consider adopting its guidance to outline quality system [...]

  • Improving 454 Sequencing Data

    Updated: 2010-04-13 17:03:09
    While 454-based pyrosequencing has led to great advances, an intrinsic artifact of the process leads to artificial over-representation of more than 10% of the original DNA sequencing templates. This is particularly problematic in metagenomic studies, where the abundance of any sequence in a dataset is often used for comparative community analysis. It’s important [...]

  • Identified new genes responsible for obesity

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    : nature.com blogs Sign in Snapshot Account Tomorrow's Table for Nature a nature network blog by Pamela Ronald Home Archive About Policy Search this Blog Research Update : what do all these rice genes do anyway Bookmark in Connotea From a molecular geneticist’s perspective , there are just too many genes in rice . Forty one thousand by my last count Many seem to carrying out identical functions . If we knock out one , another one compensates . This makes it very confusing to elucidate the role of each . gene Why bother with this work then Well if we can figure out what each rice gene does this information can be used to develop new rice varieties with useful properties such as tolerance to flooding or resistance to disease In our new paper we report a method to efficiently overcome the obstacle of gene redundancy by combining information on gene expression data with mutant phenotypes . We first developed a 45K oligo-microarray PLoS One in press and used it to examine genes expressed in the light vs . the dark . We then screened for rice lines with mutations in the strongly light-induced genes . This analysis effectively provided candidate functions for genes of previously unknown .

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    nature.com blogs Sign in Snapshot Account Boston blog a nature network blog by Corie Lok Lou Woodley Home Archive About Policy Search this Blog Big money for genomics Bookmark in Connotea Tis the season for big prizes for science . As millions are being doled out for the Nobels this week , the X Prize Foundation yesterday announced a 10 million prize for the development of high-speed , low-cost DNA sequencing technology . The New York Times reports that the winner must be able to sequence 100 human genomes , chosen by the competitor , within 10 days , and another 100 genomes , chosen by the foundation , within six months . This foundation is the same one that awarded 10 two years ago to Mojave Aerospace Ventures for building a spaceship . Now it’s planning other competitions , including one for a fuel-efficient car . The foundation is calling this the largest prize in medical history The first X prize for the spaceship was announced in 1996 and awarded eight years later . How long will it take for the genomics prize winner to emerge Will this turn into another Collins vs Venter type of competition Posted by Corie Lok on Oct 5, 2006 Permalink 1 Comment No TrackBacks No TrackBacks

  • Calcium Imaging of Neuronal Circuits

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    Neurons are organized into anatomical and functional groups called “circuits”. The activity of these circuits is traditionally monitored using conventional electrophysiological techniques. But some cells, such as the submandibular ganglia, are difficult to impale for intracellular recordings. Instead, viral vectors can be used to deliver fluorescent calcium sensors for detecting activity in a [...]

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