Despite being 2mm in diameter and only having 2 cell types, green alga Volvox have fascinated biologists for over 300 years and are a model organism for developmental, physiological and evolutionary research...
Read More »Upcoming Webinar – Optimizing Whole-Transcriptome RNA-Seq with Improved Library Prep and Data Analysis
Event status: Not started (Register) Date and time: Thursday, March 16, 2017 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Duration: 1 hour This online seminar will discuss how improvements on the front end and back end of the ...
Read More »RNAome sequencing delineates the complete RNA landscape
Standard RNA expression profiling methods rely on enrichment steps for specific RNA classes, thereby not detecting all RNA species. For example, small and large RNAs from the same sample cannot be sequenced in a single sequence run. Researchers at Erasmus ...
Read More »Researchers use RNA-Seq to understand the effects of climate change
Wheat is a staple food worldwide and provides 40% of the calories in the diet. Climate change and global warming pose a threat to wheat production, however, and demand a deeper understanding of how heat stress might impact wheat production ...
Read More »Microarray Not Fade Away
Yes, many are attracted to next-generation sequencing, but loyalty to chip-based phenotyping has its rewards, particularly in screens of large sample sets. from Genetic Engineering News – by Lisa Heiden The microarray, the legacy technology for measuring gene expression, will ...
Read More »RNA-Seq To ID Markers For Research on Neural Tissue Differentiation – ASHG 2014
Neural tissue differentiated and cultured from derived stem cells is expected to revolutionize the treatment of brain and spinal injuries and diseases. Critical for these cellular therapies is accurate control and monitoring of differentiation but current methods for such cell ...
Read More »Next Gen Sequencing or Microarray: How to Make the Choice
from BitsizeBio by Kristin Harper You’re about to start that big project you’ve been dreaming of for years. You’ve identified a potential miracle compound and want to figure out how it affects gene expression. But how are you going to ...
Read More »READemption – A tool for the computational analysis of deep-sequencing-based transcriptome data
RNA-Seq has become a potent and widely used method to qualitatively and quantitatively study transcriptomes. In order to draw biological conclusions based on RNA-Seq data, several steps some of which are computationally intensive, have to be taken. Researchers at the ...
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