Confronting, Combating Plant Diseases at the Molecular Level

Combating Kinetoplastid diseases

Ancient Plagues, Modern Epidemics Today's Kinetoplastida form a diverse order of flagellated protozoans that have evolved from an ancient lineage, rooted near the base of the eukaryotic tree. The disease caused by some species of the Order Kinetoplastida have always plagued mankind, and today most are at least as prevalent as they have ever been. Kinetoplastid parasites cause disease in humans,...

Combating non-communicable diseases.

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Ferroelectricity at molecular level

Towards Advanced Bioinformatics Techniques for the Systemic Analysis at the Molecular Level of Complex Diseases

In this paper, we present a set of bioinformatics algorithms and tools for understanding the mechanisms of complex diseases at a molecular level. We mainly concentrate on the unsupervised analysis of gene expression data, for which we have developed improved clustering algorithms based on nonnegative matrix factorizations. We also present a detailed analysis of a large colon adenocarcinoma data...

Confronting a world of infectious diseases.

Bioterrorism and international epidemics are global public health problems. They are international, not just national, issues. Agents that are potential bioweapons and the fight against these agents need to be put into the framework of the fight against infectious diseases in general. To put things in perspective, we’re not dealing with a threat. We’re dealing with a reality: the leading infect...