SXSW 2012 – Influence: It’s in Your Genes
“More and more marketers are looking to tap into data to determine a value on a person. Tools like Klout, PeerIndex, and Avenue Empire are developing thei...
“More and more marketers are looking to tap into data to determine a value on a person. Tools like Klout, PeerIndex, and Avenue Empire are developing thei...
“Cat odors induce rapid, innate and stereotyped defensive behaviors in rats at first exposure, a presumed response to the evolutionary pressures of predat...
“The researchers tweaked the genes that allow P. aeruginosa to detect other members of its species and put this synthetic genetic code into E. coli’...
“In sum, the past few years have witnessed a surge of new empirical and theoretical approaches to understand the dynamics of bacterial–insect relationship...
“Mealybugs are the Russian nesting dolls of the animal world. Their bodies harbor a bacterium that helps them turn plant sap into usable nutrients, and th...
Proteome-wide post-translational modification statistics: frequency analysis and curation of the swiss-prot database : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Gr...
“But when Von Dohlen and her student Shawn Kohler examined the mealybugs’ so-called “symbiotic spheres,” long assumed to be host structu...
“Fifty to 100 genes affect whether a worm enters the dauer state. In theory, deletions on any of them could keep worms from becoming dauer larvae. But man...
“These results add another dimension to the evolution of resistance and suggest that the low antibiotic concentrations found in many natural environments ...
“The past months have seen a swathe of discoveries, from details about when Neanderthals and humans interbred, to the important disease-fighting genes tha...