While reading the book "Bioinformatics - A Begineer's Guide", I came across an intruiging paragraph. I thought I would share it would with you.
"" Sometimes browsing the Internet gives one the depressing feeling that everything has been done ...
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Viruses are our Ancestors? – Hmm…
The news is doing rounds all around the web and it is indeed quite thought provoking and mind boggling discovery.. Before I tell you the news, here is an extract from one of the story:
""Scientists estimate that they have discovered and document...
RNAi as a method of Biohacking
See the next killer technology which can hack the existing machinery present in all cells to silence the effect of genes. This can prove to be useful in combating with HIV proteins/enzymes and preventing the expression of the genes corresponding to them....
RNA Editing
The generally percieved notion that DNA -> RNA -> Polypeptide is not true. The RNA can be edited before transcription and after RNA processing. So, the polypeptide is not 100% determined by the DNA sequence corresponding to it, it is also influened by t...
Fly-eating robot powers itself
A lil old news, but certainly very important one... Image a robot which does not need any human supervision, no manual energy needs, can survive in the wild.. Scary thought, huh! Well, cientists at the University of the West of England (UWE) have designe...
Make BioBombs at Home
Here is an interesting article titled [URL=http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader$1439]"Biowar for dummies"[/URL]. The author claims that with DNA hacking getting easier and cheaper, terrorists can make dangerous-than-nukes bombs without t...
A robot powered by Biology
This is a true example of biohacking and hopefully researches like this will continue to exploit biology for its complexity and flexibility.
Now to actual story. ""The Physarum polycephalum slime, which naturally shies away from light, controls ...
One Gene -> One Polypeptide theory is wrong..
What I believed that one gene codes for just one polypeptide seems to be incorrect. I am reading the book Intelligent Bioinformatics where AI techniques relevant for bioinformatics are discussed. In the preliminary chapters, the author says that the bele...
Protein Structure Prediction using Neural Networks
Presently, I am coding a neural network for protein secondary structure prediction. Initially, I thought of predicting contact maps..... Presently, I am coding a neural network for protein secondary structure prediction. Initially, I thought of predicti...
An Idea: Spam Detection using DNA
I have an idea of Spam detection using DNA (Hybridization or Sequence Alignment).... I have an idea of Spam detection using DNA (Hybridization or Sequence Alignment). Like represent each english alphabet by a codon. Lets say we represent 'a' by AUG an...