Bioinformatics

Historic ‘Grand Challenge’ launched: Create low-cost devices for rapid disease diagnosis

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 16-Dec-2011 Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invest almost $32 million in the discovery and development of

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Redesigned and vastly expanded, Encyclopedia of Life Version 2 offers information on 1/3rd of known species

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL.org) Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 5 September 2011 Glasswing butterfly - Credit- Kibuyu Landmark global online collaboration now offers trusted information on

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Teeming with life, Pacific’s California current likened to Africa’s Serengeti Plain

Census of Marine Life, Washington DC / Tagging of Pacific Palagics project, Pacific Grove, CA 22 June 2011 Decade of electronic tagging, tracking of 23 top

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Explorers Inventory Hard-to-See Sea Life: Tiny but Mighty Microbes, Plankton, Larvae, Burrowers — Keys to Earth’s Food and Respiratory Systems

Census of Marine Life Washington DC 18-Apr-2010 Microbial mat the size of Greece found on oxygen-starved South American seafloor; Scientists puzzle out Neptune’s riotous diversity

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Student sleuths exploring with DNA barcodes reveal zoo of 95 species in typical NYC homes – find a mystery cockroach and new evidence of food fraud

Rockefeller University New York City 28-Dec-2009 Two New York City high school students exploring their homes using the latest high-tech DNA analysis techniques were astonished

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Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

22-Nov-2009 Census of Marine Life Washington DC Deep sea teeming with species that have never known sunlight Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an

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Cool new tools let public contribute to massive interactive online biodiversity encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Life Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 23-Aug-2009 Over 30,000 still images and video, as well as local information about changing biodiversity, have been uploaded

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DNA barcoding of mosquito species deployed in bid to end elephantiasis

JRS Biodiversity Foundation Philadelphia, USA 29-Apr-2009 First use of DNA barcoding in war against a major world disease New biotechnologies that allow scientists to quickly

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Biomarkers in blood could aid diagnosis of crippling, often fatal forms of malaria

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health University of Toronto / University Health Network 7-Dec-2008 Canadian researchers have identified protein biomarkers that shed new light on the

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Amid spiralling government interest, world’s top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei

Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 14-Sep-2007 Major advances foreseen in health, consumer and environment protection, more About 350 DNA barcoding experts from

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How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report

23 Oct 03 Census of Marine Life An estimated 5,000 previously unknown ocean fish species and hundreds of thousands of other marine life forms are

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