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Systems Biology Graphical Notation: A Visual Language for Biology

Filed under: Genetics

Shown above is a summary of the physiology of a neuro-muscular junction in a newly introduced visual language called Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN). Developed to standardize and simplify a knowledge database in an exploding field of Systems Biology,...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 13, 2009 12:00 AM




Advancing Systems Biology for Medical Applications

Filed under: Society

The European Science Foundation has just released a science policy briefing titled Advancing Systems Biology for Medical Applications, a document that provides an excellent overview of systems biology and its possibilities for medicine and science. The policy briefing also...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on January 5, 2009 10:18 AM




Predicting Effectiveness of Vaccine Immunizations

Filed under: in the news...

A multidisciplinary group of researchers created a new methodology that can identify the effectiveness of vaccine immunity, based on a genetic makeup of a person receiving the vaccine. The research was conducted by scientists from the Yerkes National Primate Research...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 5, 2008 10:24 AM




Ins and Outs

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Drug to increase muscle mass 20% with no side effects... [University of Virginia] Feds Probe Unapproved Use of Medtronic Bone Stimulator ... [WSJ] Doctors Feel Gloomy, Financially Strapped ... [WSJ] FDA approves Teva's generic Pulmicort... [Globes] How medical device makers...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on November 19, 2008 10:11 AM




Identifying Protein Presence Quickly and Cheaply

Filed under: Diagnostics

A microfluidic chip that uses a novel technology to identify the presence of circulating proteins in a minuscule blood sample may lead to a new generation of quick and accurate diagnostic tests. The chip's technology is being developed by Caltech...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on November 17, 2008 12:00 AM




First Full Female Genome Sequenced

Filed under: in the news...

Scientists from the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) are reporting the completion of the first full sequence of a female genome. Why did it take so long? After all, up until now there have been already four individual genomes sequenced,...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 23, 2008 03:17 PM




MIT Tech Review Talks to Systems Biologist Leroy Hood

Filed under: in the news...

Biotech pioneer Dr. Leroy Hood, who is also president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, recently gave an interview to the MIT Tech Review. A snippet: TR: You've said that solutions to biological complexity will be...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 5, 2008 07:46 AM




Scientists Synthesize Intracellular Memory

Filed under: in the news...

Here's an interesting experiment done by investigators in the lab of Professor Pamela Silver from the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, that has demonstrated the ability to create intracellular memory in yeast cells: A team in Silver's...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on September 17, 2007 12:32 AM




Researchers Developing Implantable "BioComputers"

Filed under: Diagnostics , Medicine

Thanks to Harvard and Princeton scientists, we'll be able to tell our grandchildren that "back in our day we had to walk to school uphill both ways, in the snow, all year long. And we didn't have any fancy-shmancy...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 22, 2007 01:01 AM




Ins and Outs

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Researchers Discover Link Between Parkinson's and Narcolepsy[UCLA] Systems biology, in search of a metaphor, tries out language of machines, intestines[MIT] A Fork in the Road for Stents[Red Herring] Cerebral Malaria : approaching a diagnostic test ?[Centre National de la Recherche...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 4, 2007 10:38 AM




New Microchip for Protein Sorting

Filed under: Genetics , Nanomedicine

A new MIT project, reported in the latest Nature Nanotechnology, aims to make Western blotting an old-fashioned technique: The microchip system has an extremely tiny sieve structure built into it that can sort through continuous streams of biological fluids and...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on February 6, 2007 12:06 AM




Antisense RNA Found to Regulate Gene Expression

Filed under: in the news...

Investigators from MIT, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle have discovered a new, previously unknown, process of gene regulation. The mechanism, identified in haploid cells of yeast, is thought to protect these...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on November 22, 2006 12:06 AM




BioModels: a Computational Systems Biology Database

Filed under: etc.

We have reported earlier about the emerging and very promising science of systems biology. FutureFeeder updates us about recent major developments in this field: The recently launched BioModels Database (April 11,2005), by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the SBML...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on April 15, 2005 01:05 AM




The Science of Debugging Cancer

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The San Jose Mercury News reports about an interesting project that is grounded in the new evolving field of systems biology: A team of Bay Area scientists has received a five-year, $15 million grant to study human breast cancer cells....permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 8, 2005 12:01 AM