LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES: Gene-Expression Analysis Exploits More Technologies

Life Science Technologies Cell Analysis

The shape we’re in Since its inception, cell biology has been a fundamentally visual science. Fibroblasts are elongated; neurons are dendritic. Mitotic cells have spindles; apoptotic cells have blebs. The field’s clinical cousins—pathology and hematology—also rely heavily on cell shape. Pathologists classify tumors by how far their cells deviate from their normal forms, while hematologists iden...

Life Technologies

Horizontal gene transfer is an important evolutionary process shaping genomes of microorganisms. Its presence complicates an inference of how different microbial lineages related to each other based on the examination of their gene content. We introduce a method, which we call quartet decomposition that examines histories of individual genes in genomes and assesses the impact of horizontal gene...

P-197: Aberrant Gene Expression Profile in Blastocyst Embryos As Consequences of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Background: Currently, ARTs are of indispensable importance in treatment of human infertility. While ARTs are considered to be safe, some studies suggest that ARTs manipulations may perturb the epigenetic information and subsequently the health of the offspring. To examine these events further, this study was conducted to assess the effect of superovulation, in vitro culture and vitrification o...

Science, ethics, and cloning technologies.

Vector Field Visual Data Analysis Technologies for Petascale Computational Science

Modern scientific visualization plays a significant role in contemporary science. Visualization is the transformation of abstract data, whether it is observed, simulated, or both, into readily comprehensible images, and has proven to be an indispensable part of the scientific discovery process in many fields of science. The visualization of vector fields is one of the more complex areas of scie...