Tag: Bioinformatics

Holistic Bursting Cells might be Basis of Brain Cognition

September 7, 2020
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Beijing, China — In the past century, neuroscientists have discovered various functional classes of neurons that are relevant to cognitive functions of the brain. These include orientation selective...

Extrachromosomal DNA is Common in Human Cancer and Drives Poor Patients Outcomes

August 18, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — The multiplication of genes located in extrachromosomal DNA that have the potential to cause cancer drives poor patient outcomes across many cancer types, according to a Nature Genetics study...

Deep Learning on Cell Signalling Networks Establishes AI for Single-Cell Biology

August 4, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — Computer systems that emulate key aspects of human problem solving are commonly referred to as artificial intelligence (AI). This field has seen massive progress over the last years....

Iron Study Combats Anaemia with Cutting-Edge Computer Simulation

August 4, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — A new iron intervention study has determined which of the world’s low-and-middle income countries would benefit from using iron-containing micronutrient powders to tackle...

Gene Variations at Birth Reveal Origins of Inflammation and Immune Disease

July 30, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — A study published in the journal Nature Communications has pinpointed a number of areas of the human genome that may help explain the neonatal origins of chronic immune and inflammatory...

Phosphoprotein Biomarkers to Guide Cancer Therapy are Identified

July 30, 2020
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Birmingham, AL — Precision medicine in cancer treatment uses genetic changes in the cancer cells to select the best therapies for individual patients. Now researchers led by Dr. James Bibb, professor...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Smell the Roses

July 30, 2020
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Riverside, CA — A pair of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has used machine learning to understand what a chemical smells like — a research breakthrough with potential...

Artificial Intelligence Finds Patterns of Mutations and Survival in Tumour Images

July 28, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK, and collaborators have developed...

RNA Structures by the Thousands

June 18, 2020
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Bochum, Germany — Researchers from Bochum and Münster have developed a new method to determine the structures of all RNA molecules in a bacterial cell at once. In the past, this had to be done individually...

Latest Findings on Bitter Substances in Coffee

June 18, 2020
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Freising, Germany — Coffee is very popular around the world despite or perhaps because of its bitter taste. Compounds contained in the coffee such as caffeine contribute to the bitterness to varying...

Intracellular Biopsy Technique for Fast MicroRNAs Profiling in Living Cells

June 11, 2020
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Hong Kong, China — MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are gaining more attention in researches of different human diseases (e.g. cancer) because changes in miRNA expression are frequently associated with abnormal...

New Technology will Show How RNA Regulates Gene Activity

May 19, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — The discovery of a huge number of long non-protein coding RNAs, aka lncRNAs, in the mammalian genome was a major surprise of the recent large-scale genomics projects. An international...

The Exposome: When Our Environment Drives Health and Disease

May 18, 2020
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg — Science, has published in its January issue two papers by Associate Prof. Emma Schymanski, Head of the Environmental Cheminformatics research group at the University of...

Computer Modelling Reveals Behaviour of Individual Lipid Molecules

May 12, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — Lipids are essential building blocks of cell membranes, which control the exchange of substances and energy between a cell and its environment. Developed at the Moscow Institute...

DNA Damage and Faulty Repair Jointly Cause Mutations

May 4, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the University of Dundee and the Wellcome Sanger Institute analysed over 2700 genomes from C. elegans worms...

Scientists Discover How Multiple RNA Elements Control MicroRNA Biogenesis

April 23, 2020
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Hong Kong, China — In humans (as well as all other organisms) genes encode proteins, which in turn regulate all the different specific cellular functions of the body. The genetic information found...

Scientist Unlocks New Way to Understand Evolving Strains of SARS-CoV-2

April 21, 2020
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York, UK — Researchers from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have unveiled a new approach to analysing the genetic codes – or the blueprint – of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that...

Transposable Elements Play Important Role in Genetic Expression and Evolution

April 16, 2020
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Ann Arbor, MI — Until recently, little was known about how transposable elements contribute to gene regulation. These are little pieces of DNA that can replicate themselves and spread out in the genome....

World’s Largest Map of Protein Connections Holds Clues to Health and Disease

April 9, 2020
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Toronto, ON — The human body is composed of billions of cells, each of which is made and maintained through countless interactions among its molecular parts. But which interactions sustain health and...

Learning How Cancer Cells Coordinate and Collaborate to Multiply and Metastasize

March 16, 2020
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Osaka, Japan — Cancer cells are known to migrate and collaborate to form networks that function as conduits providing access to nutrients and blood vessels. Now, researchers in Japan have generated...

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