News articles tagged with 'database'
Obesity increases risk of death in severe vehicle crashes, study shows
— 3 Jan 2011 17:32 | HealthModerately and morbidly obese persons face many health issues - heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, gallbladder disease and others…
FReD can help explain how a bee sees!
— 12 Dec 2010 15:34 | BiologyBees can see colours but they perceive the world differently to us, including variations in hue that we cannot ourselves distinguish…
New system developed for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
— 11 Jun 2010 11:24 | HealthResearchers of the University of Granada have developed a new computer program that allows early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease through processed images. This new system has enhanced…
Data acquisition and coordination key to human microbiome project
— 10 Jun 2010 10:42 | HealthAt birth, your body was 100-percent human in terms of cells. At death, about 10-percent of the cells in your body will be human and the remaining 90-percent will be microorganisms.…
Consortium recommends microarray testing as new standard for paediatric genetic diagnosis
— 14 May 2010 13:30 | HealthAn international consortium of genetics experts has issued a consensus statement recommending chromosomal microarray (CMA) as the new standard practice for genetic evaluation of children…
Life history database aids wild primate studies
— 24 Apr 2010 11:13 | BiologyA group of scientists who have studied the life history of primates for decades got to thinking about their own life histories and decided they had better do something to preserve their…
Losing your tongue
— 2 Nov 2009 16:20 | HealthElder Tommy George has not spoken his aboriginal language of Kuku Thaypan for three years, since his brother died. 'It might die in the throat, but it stays alive in the heart,' he…
Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests, including 100s of builders' thumbs
— 28 Oct 2009 12:09 | TechnologyTechnology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top…
Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe
— 27 Oct 2009 17:53 | AstronomyUnderstanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology…
Establishing standard definitions for genome sequences
— 10 Oct 2009 10:10 | BiologyIn 1996, researchers from major genome sequencing centres around the world convened on the island of Bermuda and defined a finished genome as a gapless sequence with a nucleotide error…