First q-bio Conference day 1
The First q-bio Conference on cellular information processing, Santa Fe, New Mexico started today with an opening lecture by William Bialek. Here is an attempt to provide a brief account of his...
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There were many interesting talks during these two last days at the First q-bio Conference on cellular information processing. Too many in fact and I can only try to give some excerpts, reflecting more...
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Glia-neuron interactions
Nature Neuroscience has a nice special focus on glia and disease. The featured reviews and perspective articles discuss multiple aspects of neuron-glia interactions and their role in disease. The...
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New feedback loop in Arabidopsis circadian clock
By James CW Locke, California Institute of Technology A new Science paper from the lab of Alex Webb (Dodd et al, Science, 2007) represents an important step forward in plant circadian research (read...
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Morphogen Paradoxes
A controversy seems to be brewing over some recent theories and quantitative analyses addressing the fundamental question of how the Bicoid morphogen gradient is established and decoded in early...
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EGFR and c-Met core signaling network
Research highlight by Jeongah Yoon and Thomas S. Deisboeck, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA Targeting receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) is currently thought to be a promising anti-cancer...
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A refreshing model: peppermint terpenoids
Research highlight by Doron Lancet, Crown Human Genome Center, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Living cells are typically asymmetric, having tens of...
View ArticleFascinating correlations or elegant theories?
Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired , wrote a few weeks ago a provocative piece “”http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory">The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the...
View Article[Research highlight] NF-kappaB signaling goes digital
In a report published this week at Nature, Tay et al. reveal that populations of mouse 3T3 cells exposed to TNF-α show a digital NF-κB response, where increasing TNF-α concentrations lead to a higher...
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q-bio 2010 Conference on Cellular Information Processing
This last August 11-14, systems biologists convened in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the Fourth Annual q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing. The conference brought together a...
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