News articles tagged with 'sequence'
Dial 5683 for love: Dialling certain numbers on a cell phone changes your emotional state
— 17 Feb 2011 16:51 | HealthA psychological scientist in Germany has found a way that cell phones, and specifically texting, have hacked into our brains. Just by typing the numbers that correspond to the letters…
Kidney gene implicated in increased heart failure risk
— 18 Jan 2011 16:57 | HealthScientists have identified the first DNA sequence variant common in the population that is not only associated with an increased risk of heart failure, but appears to play a role in…
After good or bad events, people forget how they thought they'd feel
— 2 Nov 2010 13:27 | HealthPeople aren't very accurate at predicting how good or bad they'll feel after an event - such as watching their team lose the big game or getting a flat-screen TV. But afterwards, they…
Penn study identifies molecular guardian of cell's RNA
— 26 Oct 2010 12:59 | HealthWhen most genes are transcribed, the nascent RNAs they produce are not quite ready to be translated into proteins - they have to be processed first. One of those processes is called…
First Irish genome sequenced
— 7 Sep 2010 12:06 | BiologyThe first entire genome of an Irish individual has been sequenced. The sequence is reported in BioMed Central's open access journal, Genome Biology and provides insight into the evolutionary…
Stanford-developed app shows 2-D structure of thousands of RNA molecules
— 2 Sep 2010 15:04 | Technology'There's an app for that.' To a cadre of scientists, the familiar phrase will soon mean they can enter a specific RNA from baker's yeast into their iPhone and see a depiction of its…
Single neurones can detect sequences
— 13 Aug 2010 08:27 | HealthSingle neurones in the brain are surprisingly good at distinguishing different sequences of incoming information according to new research by UCL neuroscientists…
Genomes of citrus canker pathogens decoded
— 24 Apr 2010 10:16 | BiologyAn international team of scientists from Brazil and the United States have completed the draft genome sequences of two strains of the Xanthomonas bacteria that cause citrus canker.…
High-performance computing reveals missing genes
— 14 Apr 2010 09:49 | TechnologyScientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech have used high-performance computing to locate small genes that have…
Sequence is scaffold to study sleeping sickness
— 14 Apr 2010 09:07 | HealthResearchers have made a further step toward understanding sleeping sickness - a chronic disease caused by Trypanosoma parasites, which affect the human central nervous system. The team…