Research Diary

By stripping the E. coli genome of vast tracts of its genetic material
- hundreds of apparently inconsequential genes – a team of Wisconsin
researchers has created a leaner and meaner version of the bacterium
that is a workhorse of modern biology and industry.More on this story…

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This is a great site for listening and watching great thinkers talking about science [...]

Researchers
at the University of California, San Diego have determined what
factors turn on protein production in bacteria, a finding that
[...]

 
Finally I had some time to finish my multiscale smoothing algorithm. Red is the original signal and the blue line is the smoothing done at a particular scale. The smoothing can be done at much finer or coarser levels as well. The energy of the signal is the same as the original signal and also [...]

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute launched on March 21st a search engine
that speeds up the hunt for important DNA sequences more than
100-fold. Just as important, the engine scans all known sequence
data from all available organisms, saving time for researchers, who,
until the release of TraceSearch, had to inspect [...]

Wouldn’t be nice if we could genetically engineer things that we do not like into things that we can tolerate and use? Here is a great example : A kiwi rat.