Research technologies news: 2011

December
- Scientists use artificial intelligence to construct food webs - Press release - 30 December
  Scientists have developed an advanced technique, using a branch of artificial intelligence called Machine Learning that could greatly improve our…
- From loyalty cards to proteomics and the birth of the super experiment - Feature - 22 December
  Like tracking customer buying preferences with a loyalty card, BBSRC-funded researchers at the University of Dundee…
- Industry welcomes funding for the ELIXIR research infrastructure - News - 5 December
  Earlier today the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced a £75M commitment from the Large Facilities Capital Fund (LFCF) for ELIXIR…
November
- Brassica research boosted by transformation resources - Press release - 25 November
  The genetic modification of plants is an invaluable tool used by scientists globally to gain a better understanding of the functions of certain genes…
- Small no longer means impossible – new technique enables study of ‘challenging’ proteins - Press release - 14 November
  Researchers from Hull, Bristol and Frankfurt have shown that a new technique for identifying molecular structure can be used effectively…
- The wisdom of the crowd - Feature - 8 November
  How many geneticists does it take to sequence a genome? The answer, it appears, is changing all the time…
October
- Researchers make important discovery about one of the key pigments of life - Press release - 5 October
  BBSRC-funded researchers at the University of Kent and the University of Oxford have discovered a new way in which nature makes heam…
September
- Aboriginal Australians: The first explorers - Press release - 23 September
  An international team of researchers…has for the first time sequenced the genome of a man who was an Aboriginal Australian…
- Call for applications - Synthetic biology for new diagnostics, sensors and lightweight materials - Press release - 20 September
  Researchers are invited to apply for funding from a new Joint Synthetic Biology Initiative, which has made up to £2.4M available from BBSRC…
August
- Rocks and clocks help unravel the mysteries of ancient Earth - Press release - 24 August
  Researchers have found that the way in which fossils are used to calibrate the Earth's evolutionary 'molecular clock' is of critical importance…
- Nature reaches for the high-hanging fruit - Press release - 17 August
  In the first study of its kind, researchers have used tools of paleontology to gain new insights into the diversity of natural plant chemicals…
- Research reveals how butterflies copy their neighbours to fool birds - Press release - 12 August
  The mystery of how a butterfly has changed its wing patterns to mimic neighbouring species and avoid being eaten by birds has been solved…
- Scientists take a step towards developing better vaccines for Bluetongue - Media release - 1 August
  Researchers have taken a step towards producing better vaccines against Bluetongue after successfully assembling the virus outside a cell…
July
- The development game - Feature - 26 July
  Fundamental bioscience reveals useful insights into early wool and feather growth…
- Epigenetic ''memory'' key to nature versus nurture - Press release - 25 July
  Researchers funded by BBSRC at the John Innes Centre have made a discovery, reported this evening (24 July) in Nature…
- Scientists sequence DNA of cancer-resistant rodent - Press release - 5 July
  Scientists have generated the first whole-genome sequencing data of the naked mole-rat, a rodent that is resistant to cancer and lives for more than…
- New research could offer alternative to animals in drug tests - Press release - 5 July
  Researchers funded by BBSRC, at the University of Reading, have developed a new way to test the adhesive qualities of drugs under laboratory…
June
- Plants cope with nutritional stress using newly discovered pathway - Press release - 14 June
  Researchers from the BBSRC-funded National Centre for Plant and Microbial Metabolomics at Rothamsted Research have increased our understanding…
- TGAC helps in crowd-sourcing analysis of E. coli strain - Press release - 8 June
  Scientists from TGAC receives strategic funding from BBSRC and have identified several genes which may be key factors in the recent E.coli…
- For stressed bees, the glass is half empty - Press release - 3 June
  When people are depressed or anxious, they are much more likely to see their glass as half empty than half full and new research has shown those…
May
- Record breaking data centre for genome sequencing opened in Norwich - News - 27 May
  Amplify the low hum from your computer thousands of times and you will have some idea of the noise created by cooling a supercomputer with 6Tbs…
- A fundamental finding for cell growth and renewal - Feature - 20 May
  A paper by a theoretical biologist at the Institute of Food Research has become the most viewed of all time in the journal Biomed Central Systems…
- Solving the genetics jigsaw puzzle - Feature - 19 May
  A method which could help pinpoint the 'missing pieces' of the genetic makeup underlying complex traits, such as height, skin colour and diseases…
April
- JIC and JISC effort to promote open bioimaging - Press release - 5 April
  The field of biological imaging has seen incredible advances due to new imaging techniques and molecular markers…
March
- Sharing the fat of the land - Feature - 21 March
  Cross-institute collaborations to make most of new lipidomics facilities…
- New R&D projects will help British businesses exploit large and diverse sources of data - Press release - 1 March
  Over £5M of government funding is to be invested in twenty-one new research and development projects and trials…
February
- Collisions of protein machines cause DNA replication derailment - Press release - 23 February
  Scientists have published results that will forever change the way researchers view the interplay between gene expression, DNA replication and the…
- Novel imaging technique looks inside starch granules - Press release - 11 February
  Starch is the major storage compound in plants, and a major component of cereal grains and so is an important part of our food…
- Eradication of hip and elbow dysplasia a step closer - Press release - 8 February
  The eradication of hip and elbow dysplasia - a painful developmental disease - in Labrador Retrievers has taken a step forward…
- A new paradigm for how genes are read – ‘the elongation-first hypothesis’ - News - 4 February
  All living things, with their myriad variations, use an almost identical microscopic machine to read their genes. This machine - RNA polymerase…
- High arctic avian athlete gives lessons about animal welfare - Press release - 2 February
  Researchers report that an arctic relative of the grouse has evolved to cope with its extreme environment by moving efficiently at high speeds…
January
- Ancient body clock discovered that helps to keep all living things on time - Press release - 27 January
  The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by BBSRC-funded scientists…
- RevGenUK - reverse genetics goes forwards - Press release - 27 January
  RevGenUK, the mutation detection service based at The John Innes Centre is poised to take advantage of the newest advances in genomic technology…
- BBSRC review of the computational requirements of the biological sciences - News - 20 January
  The BBSRC Review of the Computational Requirements of the Biological Sciences was conducted to provide an evidence base to underpin…
- Building on a legacy in antibody research - Feature - 14 January
  With world-class facilities and a vibrant research community, the Babraham Research Campus has recently attracted some of the most exciting new…
- New microscopic techniques help to develop improved chicken vaccines - News - 10 January
  A collaboration between BBSRC and STFC-funded scientists has been using a new form of low energy microscopy to observe how poxviruses interact…

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