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Decoding Promotion
Despite their identical genomes, cells in the body develop distinct personalities—become neurons or liver cells, for instance—due to differences in gene expression. The mechanism that...
Mar, 31, 2009
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A Seller’s Market for Biomedical Data Science Jobs

Just pondering the current job market for biomedical data scientists is likely to put a smile on the faces of many in the field. “The bottom line is, compared to other disciplines,...
Oct, 07, 2015
Assembling The Aging Puzzle: Computation Helps Connect the Pieces

The complexity and variability of aging itself, along with the fragmented nature of researchers’ current understanding of aging, call for tools that can help scientists dig through mounds of data to find often subtle connections.

Jeanne Louise Calment of Arles, France rode a bicycle until she was 100 years old. When she gave up smoking at age 117, her doctor suspected it was out of pride. (She couldn’t see well enough...
Mar, 31, 2008
The Epigenome: A New View Into the Book of Life

There is growing recognition that epigenetics may be just as important as genetics in human health and disease.

In the early 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck explained evolution as the inheritance of acquired traits; he believed that changes due to behaviors and exposures in one generation could be passed...
May, 31, 2010
Network Biology: Converging on Answers to Complex Diseases

Network biology is allowing scientists to convert their cellular parts lists into insights about complex diseases

To parents, the symptoms of autism can seem to appear from out of the blue during a child's first few years of life. But in recent years, researchers have shown that genes involved in the...
Nov, 16, 2017
The Function of DNA Form
According to a new computational analysis of DNA structure, variations in DNA shape—along the grooves of the double helix—may play an important role in defining how the genome works. The...
Jun, 30, 2009
Top 10 Retrospective: Reflections on a Decade of Biomedical Computing

Experts reflect on challenges identified ten years ago.

The first issue of this magazine (June 2005) featured a story called “Top Ten Challenges of the Next Decade” written by Eric Jakobssen, PhD, who had recently left his position as Director...
Jun, 18, 2014
Simulated Buckyballs Bind to DNA

Still unknown:  Whether they can get inside cells

Recent research illustrates a nightmare scenario for nanotechnology: simulated particles called buckyballs eagerly glomming onto nearby DNA. The study, published in Biophysical Journal in December...
Mar, 31, 2006
From Sight to Insight: Visualization tools yield biomedical success stories
They're more than just pretty pictures adorning office walls and presentation slides. Beamed into operating room computer monitors, they're guiding the scalpels of brain surgeons. Dancing...
Jan, 01, 2006
Three New Centers
The National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research has recently completed the first stage of an ambitious program to expand the computational infrastructure and software tools needed to...
Jan, 01, 2006
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