Showing posts with label life science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life science. Show all posts
Thursday, April 24, 2008
everything... 2.0
haha... guess what, I just came across this blog - it is about the launch of Medicine 2.0 Congress website and the definition of Medicine 2.0 and Health 2.0. So... everything is in 2.0 now. How about u?
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
made to order mouse
I saw a really cute mouse in National Geographic and guess what, it has a name, a well known name in the world of genetic research apparently, black 6 mice. Unfortunately I can't just copy and paste the picture here but I am impressed by what The Jackson lab is doing - 
they distributed 2.4 million of JAX mice in FY2007 and the mice have been shipped to approximately 16,000 investigators in 53 countries (and the list continues..). p.s.I found another cute one from the website tho but i don't know what is the name for this one. So...if you ever need to order a mouse for whatever reason, hopefully it is for genetic study, check out MGI.
they distributed 2.4 million of JAX mice in FY2007 and the mice have been shipped to approximately 16,000 investigators in 53 countries (and the list continues..). p.s.I found another cute one from the website tho but i don't know what is the name for this one. So...if you ever need to order a mouse for whatever reason, hopefully it is for genetic study, check out MGI.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Human Proteinpedia
Finally... a central place for researchers to annotate and share protein information. I just read about the article in Feb 2008 Nature Biotechnology. The long list of authors with the who and who in the proteomics fields should enable Human Proteinpedia to be useful and updated.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Structural DNA Nanotechnology
Few weeks ago, I posted an entry on DNA origami. I thought the idea was neat and creative but little did I know there are already a lot of other stuffs going on in the world.
The field - Structural DNA Nanotechnology (SDN). The person - Paul Rathemund. He has two beautiful smiley faces on his website. Quoted from his Nature paper, "an obvious application of patterned DNA origami would be the creation of a 'nanobreadboard', to which diverse components could be added. The attachment of proteins, for example, might allow novel biological experiments.."
Just few days ago, I come across this exciting news - a group of scientists at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have developed the world's first gene detection platform made up entirely from self-assembled DNA nanostructures. This 'breakthrough' make possible a water soluble nanoarray which can help to build a more sensitive DNA probes.
The field - Structural DNA Nanotechnology (SDN). The person - Paul Rathemund. He has two beautiful smiley faces on his website. Quoted from his Nature paper, "an obvious application of patterned DNA origami would be the creation of a 'nanobreadboard', to which diverse components could be added. The attachment of proteins, for example, might allow novel biological experiments.."
Just few days ago, I come across this exciting news - a group of scientists at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have developed the world's first gene detection platform made up entirely from self-assembled DNA nanostructures. This 'breakthrough' make possible a water soluble nanoarray which can help to build a more sensitive DNA probes.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Genomics
Green Alga Genome Project
This is one of the interesting Genome Project that most people might be interested in. One of the significant alga is the "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii". It is known to the research community as Chlamy. It is uniquely associated with carbon dioxide capture and generation of biomass. As fossil fuel have their limitation in supply, biomass is getting more and more popular as it also produce lesser greenhouse gas emission when using appropriate agricultural techniques and processing strategies. Many functions of it associate with a human helps in the basic understanding of certain human diseases.
Source: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/News/news_10_11_07.html
Sea Urchin Genome Project
A species Purple Sea Urchin(Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) is known to be closely related to human as both of the species is under the kingdom of deuterostome. For example, the membrane-bound receptor guanylate cyclase implicated in the important human disease, heat-stable enterotoxin dysentery, was first isolated from sea urchin sperm.
Source: http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/seaurchin/
This is one of the interesting Genome Project that most people might be interested in. One of the significant alga is the "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii". It is known to the research community as Chlamy. It is uniquely associated with carbon dioxide capture and generation of biomass. As fossil fuel have their limitation in supply, biomass is getting more and more popular as it also produce lesser greenhouse gas emission when using appropriate agricultural techniques and processing strategies. Many functions of it associate with a human helps in the basic understanding of certain human diseases.
Source: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/News/news_10_11_07.html
Sea Urchin Genome Project
A species Purple Sea Urchin(Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) is known to be closely related to human as both of the species is under the kingdom of deuterostome. For example, the membrane-bound receptor guanylate cyclase implicated in the important human disease, heat-stable enterotoxin dysentery, was first isolated from sea urchin sperm.
Source: http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/seaurchin/
Friday, November 16, 2007
casting a spell on DNA - DNA origami?
Just saw this video and must share with all of you... so cool!
Have you ever seen a DNA smiley face or a DNA global map???
Have you ever seen a DNA smiley face or a DNA global map???
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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