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Articles in the Category: Genomics

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Genomics, Video on 05 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Craig Venter Gives Life to First Synthetic Cell

The CBC’s science correspondent Bob McDonald puts the world’s first synthetic cell into perspective.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 02 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment

Rose Ellen’s Genetic Assist

A cancer patient is helping doctors at the Mayo Clinic unlock a few genetic secrets. Rose Ellen Heley allowed oncologists to decode her DNA and map her genome. Mayo Clinic researchers have learned something about her bone marrow cancer in the process that could help others suffering from cancer. Dr....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 01 4th, 2010 | No Comments

2 Cancer Codes Cracked

The International Cancer Genome Project is the largest genetic undertaking since the Human Genome Project. It is trying to sequence the DNA of 50 types of cancer over the next few years. Researchers decoded the genome for lung and skin cancer in mid December. CBC reports. Fun fact: Scientists discovered...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Bioethics, Biofuels, Biology, Diseases, Energy, Featured Articles, Genomics, Health and Medicine, New Species, SciClips on 09 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Synthetic Biology Takes on a Life of Its Own

A Yeast Cell with Synthetic Genes, courtesy of Dr. Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School Life is often stranger than fiction. But the direction that biology is heading, synthetic life could be stranger than science fiction. The emerging field of synthetic biology is moving closer and closer to creating...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Diseases, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, SciClips on 09 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Discovering an Ocean of Medicine

Amy Wright Collects Samples While Diving, courtesy of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University Cures to the most mundane and deadly illnesses have been found deep in the jungles, high in the mountains and hidden in the rainforests. But until recently not many scientists were...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, SciClips on 05 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment

Swine Flu on the March

Swine flu is racing across the world, spreading a deadly virus from continent to continent. The World Health Organization is worried about the beginning of a pandemic. The Center For Disease Control is trying to learn all it can about the new strain of human influenza A H1N1. And, vaccine manufacturers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Diseases, Food and Nutrition, Genomics, Health and Medicine, SciClips on 04 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Bovine Genome Moos Science Forward

Cows are more like people than we thought. Or so says new international research stemming from a six-year analysis of the entire genetic code for cows. Over 300 researchers from over 25 countries have been poring over segments of DNA trying to identify which building blocks do what. The preliminary...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Food and Nutrition, Genomics, Health and Medicine, SciClips, Video on 12 18th, 2008 | 7 Comments

Rejuvenating Resveratrol

12 Days of Science: Day 5 Resveratrol, a key ingredient in red wine may lead to fountain of youth Staying young and living longer is something that we all strive to do. Now science is coming closer to identifying a genetic fountain of youth and discovering proteins that control aging. Resveratrol is...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Climate, Genomics, SciClips, SciLebs on 11 20th, 2008 | No Comments

Hollywood Gets Science

As the line between fact and fiction blurs in television and film productions, Hollywood is turning to the National Academies of Science for a much-needed dose of reality. A new initiative, called the Science & Entertainment Exchange was announced yesterday and will match creative screenwriters...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biofuels, Biology, Dinosaurs, Diseases, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Genomics, Geoengineering, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, SciClips, Space, Wave Power on 11 17th, 2008 | No Comments

One Celled Solutions

Model of a phage attacking a microbe, courtesy of Ohio State University Science is facing some big questions, like how will we capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide or how will we overcome antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections? But, a one-celled organism that lives in the sea may have the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genomics, Health and Medicine, SciClips on 10 6th, 2008 | No Comments

DNA Sequencing for Less

DNA molecules courtesy of LAGUNA DESIGN / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A few years ago scientists decided that they needed to make sequencing a complete set of human DNA affordable. So began the race to get to the $1,000 genome sequence. Complete Genomics announced today that it has cut the price to do a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Genomics, SciClips on 08 28th, 2008 | No Comments

Ringing Up the Wrong DNA

Courtesy of Barcode of Life Initiative An ambitious undertaking to count and categorize all life on Earth is under way and has hit a new snag. With almost a half million species assigned unique DNA-based barcodes, a group of scientists is worried that the sampling technique may be leading to problems....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Podcast, RawAudio on 08 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Personlized Genome: A Discussion with Leading Minds

Cells from children with genetic disease Progeria, photo by Brian C. Capell, NHGRI Some of the top scientific minds met at University of Washington last spring. Their purpose–to discuss the future of personal genomics. They met on the eve of the passage of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Diseases, Genomics, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 07 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Spinal Cord Atlas Unveiled

Courtesy of Allen Brain Institute Thousands of spinal cord injuries and disease could disappear overnight if doctors and scientists could figure out how to turn some genes off and others on. This medical mystery is getting a boost from the institute funded by billionaire Paul Allen. Today, the mouse...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Genetics, Genomics, SciClips on 04 25th, 2008 | No Comments

National DNA Day

National DNA Day 2008 image, courtesy of National Human Genome Research Institute Today marks the 55th Anniversary of the discovery of DNA’s structure. It’s also the 5th Anniversary of the fully sequenced human genome. Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed the first genetic non-discrimination...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Environment, Ethanol, Genomics, Marine Science, New Species, SciClips on 03 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment

Talking Trash About Biofuel

Steven Hutcheson, professor of cell biology and molecular genetics and president and CEO of Zymetis Inc. (right), and Ben Woodard, (left), director of the UMd Mtech Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility. A super synthesizing microbe is turning trash into gold. Or at least sugar which can be refined into biofuel....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Genetics, Genomics, Podcast, SciClips on 02 1st, 2008 | No Comments

Spit if You Want Your Genetic Code

Everybody has 23 pairs of chromosomes. It’s just part of our genetic makeup. We get half from our mothers and half from our fathers. And that combination of genes outlines our natural abilities, our appearance and even what diseases we could develop. Now a company in California is trying to make...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Genomics, Video on 11 13th, 2007 | No Comments

Unleashing healthy food (for dogs)

Nutrigenomics is a relatively new science that explores the relationship between genetic makeup and certain nutrients found in food that may assist in the prevention of specific diseases. It may help scientists better understand certain genetic disorders. For now, it’s helping arthritic pets climb...