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Fighting Viruses In virology and microbiology the "smallest" discoveries are often the biggest. Meet Dr. Bernardo Mainou, a member of the SAB since 2005!...
Dr. Shirwadkar: Developing the Tools of Life Science As a scientist at RMD, the primary interest is to develop novel scintillation and semiconductor detectors for homeland security, various noninvasive medical applications (example: SPECT, PET), and fundamental nuclear physics research experiments. ...
Alignment editor: Base-By-Base Wed, 01 Feb 2012 Sorry, this is a plug for our tool: Not enough researchers bother to check the results generated by multiple sequence alignments (MSA) tools! None of these tools are perfect, and sometimes they make glaring errors (that get published). The simple fact is that MSAs usually need to be edited. Base-By-Base is a Java (platform independent) … Continue reading »
And so, an exit. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 Moving on from the Life Science Tools of the Trade blog, with best wishes to the SAB community and an invitation to visit the new adventure.
OpenLab 2012 – The Finalists Revealed! Fri, 09 Dec 2011 The finalists included in the OpenLab anthology, containing some of the best online science writing of the year, have been announced!
How Scientists Are Using the Social Web Sat, 15 Oct 2011 Is there anyone out there more skeptical than a scientist? The ultimate spectator, the fly on the wall, seen, not heard, the most perfect life scientist notes every aspect of their subject matter, evaluates every angle, and effects nothing. A perfect experiment has absolute “control” over each variable. A perfect biologist enters an environment and … Continue reading »
The best programs for Read alignments and SNP calling in human genomes: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 Next generation sequencing technology has already revolutionized the sequencing arena due to its speed, accuracy and reduced cost. Cancer research has seen a surge in number of projects dealing with NGS methods in gene and variant discovery. This however raises an important question: if NGS methods have already attained the holy grail status?! Well, still … Continue reading »
Next Generation Sequencing As a follow-up to our recently published comprehensive study on Genomic Technologies, which covered everything from real-time PCR to microarrays, The Science Advisory Board® is pleased to release the results from our recently conducted study on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS).
Genomic Technologies Scientists employ genetic analysis approaches across a diverse range of research areas. Popular techniques include microarrays, sequencing, real-time PCR and other related methodologies.
European Funding and Budget Plans for 2011 In the past two years, global economic uncertainties have presented very challenging times for economies looking to continue their long-standing investments in the life sciences and healthcare research areas.
The Life Science Industry Awards The LSIA’s are the Life Science Industry Awards, an annual awards show where The Science Advisory Board’s international science community awards the best suppliers across every product and discipline....
SAB Members Donate over $ 55,000 to Charity in 2010! Many SAB members choose to donate their earned honoraria to charitable organizations. We are proud to announce that our members have donated more than $55,000 in donations in the year 2010...
A Perspective On the New Paradigm of Diabetes Management Part 1 Most frequently when diabetes is suspected, it is the conventional wisdom to order a fasting glucose (no food or drink except water after midnight) or hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). In all practicality, 2hPP glucose level or 2hPP glucose level or 2 hour oral glucose tolerance test is more affirmative than fasting glucose or HbA1c in defining diagnosis of diabetes....
The Impact of Genomics in the Understanding of Signal Transduction Pathways Evidence has highlighted that the alteration of one or more signal transduction pathways is involved in a growing number of human diseases, both degenerative and tumoral. In fact, the “social control” which cells undergo becomes evident when it fails. That is, every human disease might be seen as a “signalling disease”. ...
Human-Focused Testing to Treat Human Diseases The FDA reports that 92% of all potential new drugs fail to make it to market, despite passing preclinical toxicity tests en route to acceptance for clinical trials.2 The reasons for failure are...
