LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES: Sample-Separation Technologies: Improving Speed and Resolution

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...

The 3rd DBCLS BioHackathon: improving life science data integration with Semantic Web technologies

BACKGROUND BioHackathon 2010 was the third in a series of meetings hosted by the Database Center for Life Sciences (DBCLS) in Tokyo, Japan. The overall goal of the BioHackathon series is to improve the quality and accessibility of life science research data on the Web by bringing together representatives from public databases, analytical tool providers, and cyber-infrastructure researchers to j...

Improving science yield for NASA Swift with automated planning technologies

The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer is a uniquely capable mission, with three on-board instruments and rapid slewing capabilities. It serves as a fast-response satellite observatory for everything from gravitational-wave counterpart searches to cometary science. Swift averages 125 different observations per day, and is consistently over-subscribed, responding to about one-hundred Target of Oport...

Science, ethics, and cloning technologies.