Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life

Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com 3.5 billion years of evolution, in one beautiful infographic. Life start­ed with bac­te­ria. By some cos­mic chance, amino acids became DNA and pro­teins, which togeth­er became life. It took rough­ly 2 bil­lion more years for things to get more… http://flpbd.it/Xrm83Continue reading Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life

Personal Genome Project picks up participants

Personal Genome Project - Homepage. Related articles Personal Genome Project Posts DNA Info Online (npr.org) Years to Regeneration and Antiaging via Stem Cells and Gene therapy per George Church (nextbigfuture.com) George Church, Harvard genetics professor, banters with Stephen Colbert (boston.com) Open-source science helps San Carlos father's genetic quest (mercurynews.com) Do-it-yourself biotech: Ellen Jorgensen at TEDGlobal … Continue reading Personal Genome Project picks up participants

DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive

ScienceNow, wired.com Researchers have stored an entire genet­ics text­book in less than a picogram of DNA, or one tril­lionth of a gram . It’s an advance that could rev­o­lu­tion­ize our abil­i­ty to save data. http://flpbd.it/BN1W3 DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive Related articles DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive (news.dice.com) Every Shakespeare sonnet now right where you … Continue reading DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive

Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval

Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval Monya Baker, nature.com Per­son­al genet­ics com­pa­ny 23andMe announced Mon­day that it was seek­ing FDA approval for an ini­tial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to fol­low. 23andMe, based in Moun­tain View, Cal­i­for­nia, mar­kets genet­ics test­… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe's Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million … Continue reading Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval

Wifi laptops exposure and reproductive health

For years, other countries have been far more cautious about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health than in the US and far too little is known about this as we increasingly expose ourselves to these fields. In parts of Europe for example there are much stricter regulations on exposure to EMFs than in … Continue reading Wifi laptops exposure and reproductive health

High Speed Science: NIH vs. 23andMe Smackdown

via http://www.wired.com Another excellent article on turning the scientific method on its head using new web based social networking data mining methods versus hypothesis/testing. For example compares the conventional approach of NIH to that of 23andMe in studying Parkinson's which lead to a reduction in research time from 6 years to 8 months. Related articles … Continue reading High Speed Science: NIH vs. 23andMe Smackdown

Ancestry.com/RootsWeb.com: Crowdsourcing your genetic and cultural background

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Scientists Turn Digital Code into Life

via online.wsj.com Okay it has finally happened. Computer science has become biology and digital DNA has been used to make the first synthetic cell. The potential applications are diverse from biofuels to medicine. But what about the risks? Related articles Shakespeare's sonnets encoded in DNA (guardian.co.uk) Huge Amounts Of Data Can Be Stored In DNA (news.sky.com) … Continue reading Scientists Turn Digital Code into Life

Through website, patients creating own drug studies

Through website, patients creating own drug studies - The Boston Globe. Related articles Leading Health Website Offers New Approach to Comparative Medicine (prweb.com) Healthy Big Data: Putting Patients In Control (servicesangle.com) Crowd-sourcing a cure for cancer (bbc.co.uk) Would You Want to See Everything Your Doctor Writes About You? (theatlantic.com) The Mass. healthcare market is "ferocious." … Continue reading Through website, patients creating own drug studies

Open Directory: Science: Biology: Bioinformatics Education

Open Directory - Science: Biology: Bioinformatics: Education. Related articles Analysis: When will your BMC paper be typeset? (larsjuhljensen.wordpress.com) How Genome Sequencing is Revolutionizing Clinical Diagnostics (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) Open source biology software projects (ask.metafilter.com) Neo4j and Bioinformatics Webinar (datascience101.wordpress.com)

Professional Science Masters | UConn applied genomics

Professional Science Masters | UConn. Related articles Jackson Lab's progress at UConn on track, officials say (bangordailynews.com) Darwin Finch Genome Sequenced (livescience.com) Bioinformatics: The Age of Web Genomics (drchrono.com) How much modern genetics should be learnt in school? (wellcometrust.wordpress.com) Buzz: Genomics startup Halcyon Molecular tanks (fiercebiotech.com) 'Genomic CSI' Helps Contain a Killer (news.sciencemag.org)

Molecular linguistics: Extracting information from gene and protein sequences

  Molecular linguistics: Extracting information from gene and protein sequences. Related articles Scientists Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies (wed-gie.com) Scientists Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies (cntrovrc.wordpress.com) Light Language & DNA (metatronarc777.wordpress.com) DNA, our Computer Chip (hiddenlighthouse.wordpress.com) Linguistic Technologies and Big Data (semanticweb.com) Soda vs. Pop: Twitter Is Pretty … Continue reading Molecular linguistics: Extracting information from gene and protein sequences