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How meta! A poll to ask if we need polling. We could always do polls, of course, but they were stand-along things that would be in a block somewhere and I haven't seen much value to them but inside an article they might have some use. Garth, for example, does a lot of community interaction stuff so a poll for some of his articles would add a lot. Plus, we can do quizzes. Science readers, unlike the normal population, love tests.
Today, five years after the inception of the DECIPHER database, researchers have published a report that reveals the developing role of the database in revolutionizing both clinical practice and genetic research.
The report explores the growing benefits of DECIPHER for researchers, clinicians and patients - highlighting how the data, provided by around 100 centres and shared openly worldwide, can benefit all three groups.
DECIPHER - the Database of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans using Ensembl Resources - is hosted at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. It was established…
If we're going to get a $300 genome sequence any time in the near future, around the cost it will take to have it as part of routine medical care, the process has to get faster.
The obstacles to reaching that goal have been primarily technological: Scientists have struggled to figure out how to accurately read the 3 billion base pairs - the amount of DNA found in humans and other mammals - using current time-consuming and inefficient methods.
Physicists at Brown University writing in Nanotechnology say they may have the answer. They have introduced a procedure to vastly slow the DNA's…
As RFID benefits hospital in some aspects, including asset, patient and medicine management, RFID are receiving considerable attention in hospitals. DAILY RFID has launched a HF RFID Kit for hospital patient management, including the RFID tags and readers for instant deployment.
Constructed from non-allergenic silicon and waterproof design, the one-time using RFID wristband is suitable for hospital patient management such as patient monitoring, medication record and newborns tracing in hospital settings. Besides, it is resistant to alcohol and soaps - critical requirements in a hospital…
A drop of blood or a chunk of tissue smaller than the period at the end of this sentence may one day be all that is necessary to diagnose cancers and assess their response to treatment, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
In a Nature Medicine study, the scientists used a specialized machine capable of analyzing whether individual cancer-associated proteins were present in the tiny samples and even whether modifications of the proteins varied in response to cancer treatments. Although the study focuses on blood cancers, the hope is that the technique might also…
DAILY RFID has released 13.56MHz portable RFID Reader Writer SD Card, designed to plug into SD Card slot for PDA, laptop and smartphone device.The RFID read and write capabilities make this a very versatile portable RFID reader writer.
The portable RFID Reader Writer SD Card offers a seamless mobile solution for most HF(high frequency) application. This RFID Reader Writer is compatible with 13.56MHz RFID tags in various formats such as ISO/IEC 14443A, 14443B and 15693 available in the market.
In additon, DAILY RFID provides free SDK(Software Development Kit) which is compatible with…
More and more enterprises and shops integrate RFID into the warehouse management system, as the high ROI of RFID in the warehouse mangement. DAILY RFID has recently released UHF RFID Reader DL910, specially designed for warehouse management. This UHF RFID Reader can help to improve efficiency of warehouse management and reduces labor costs.
This UHF RFID reader can identify multiple tags simultaneously. With a read range up to 15m, this UHF RFID reader improves the efficiency of RFID warehouse management by automatically associating stored goods with their actual location, with no…
About 80 percent of adults suffer from some form of periodontal, or gum disease, which can result in not just tooth loss, but has also been linked to heart disease, diabetes, blood infection, low birth-weight babies, cancer and most recently, obesity.
Screening for the disease is often costly, time-consuming and sometimes painful for the patient. But researchers at Temple University have found that a simple color-changing oral strip can help detect gum disease in a patient more quickly and easily than traditional screening methods.
Lead researcher Ahmed Khocht, DDS, associate professor of…
Spoonjack today announced iBone -- the Pocket Trombone for iPhone and iPod Touch. iBone lets users play along with music in their iTunes library and with songs from the iBone Songbook and even shows them how. iBone combines an instrument, band, and trainer into a single application.
"Our aim is to produce something playable, practicable, and fun," said Tom Scharfeld, Founder of Spoonjack. "With iBone, we've brought the Bone and the band to the phone so users can make music, have fun, and even learn wherever they may be."
iBone features an interface easy enough for anyone to use: 1. Touch the…