News: Big numbers, new tools at Keystone Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 31st January 2006 06:22 AM GMT] One thing's certain at the Keystone Symposia on Structural Genomics and ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: KillerRed: The Hypoxia Connection Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 25th January 2006 05:35 PM GMT] A few days ago I blogged on a new fluorescent protein called KillerRed. Upon irradiation with green light KillerRed produces reactive oxygen species in sufficient quantities to kill both... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Systems biology gets a shot in the arm Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 23rd January 2006 10:42 PM GMT] A fundamental goal of systems biology is to define a biological system precisely, such that it becomes possible to predict the outcome of perturbing that system. Yesterday (Jan. 22) a team of researchers from German drug discovery firm Cellzome and... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Why Google is Good for Science Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 20th January 2006 10:50 PM GMT] Poking around on the iSpecies blog today, I found a comment alerting readers to ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Trace Archive Tops Billion-Record Mark Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 18th January 2006 02:40 PM GMT] Yesterday (Jan. 17) the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announced that its World Trace Archive database had just crossed the 1 billion sequence mark. The... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: A Killer Protein Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 17th January 2006 10:09 PM GMT] This month?s Nature Biotechnology includes an article from Sergey Lukyanov that elevates fluorescent proteins from cool to killer. Lukyanov, of the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Crystallography's Grail found in PNAS? Posted by Jeff Perkel [Entry posted at 10th January 2006 06:47 PM GMT] Researchers have, since 1988, been searching for a so-called "universal nucleant," that is, a material that will nucleate crystal formation, much as a grain of sand nucleates the formation of a pearl. Buried in the biophysics section of... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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