BLAST
... a library or database of sequences, a BLAST
search enables a researcher to look for sequences that ... , a scientist typically will perform a BLAST
search of the human genome to see if human beings ... EW Myers, and DJ Lipman. Basic local alignment
search tool. J Mol Biol 215(3):403-10, 1990." was the ...
Astrobiology
...
1 Overview
2
search for extraterrestrial life
3 See also
4 ... may have liquid water.
For these reasons the
search for extraterrestrial life is of great relevance ... models of such life, e.g. silicon -based.
search for extraterrestrial life
As of 2005 , there ...
Cancer
... whether to undertake cancer screening.
Use of medical imaging to
search for cancer in people without clear symptoms is similarly marred with ... one of the final stages of a long and careful cancer research process. The
search for new treatments begins in the laboratory, where scientists first ...
Alfred Russel Wallace
... we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the
search for ... In 1864 , before Darwin had publicly addressed the subject—though others had—Wallace published a paper, The Origin of ...
Apoptosis
... 2002 ( PubMed ).
Zou et al. , Cell 90(3) p. 405, 8 Aug. 1997 ( PubMed ).
External links
Entrez is a life sciences information
search engine provided by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information ( [27] ).
Entrez Bookshelf is a service provided by the NCBI in ...
Bioinformatics
... and often used at least partially on organisms with much larger genomes.
Another aspect of bioinformatics in sequence analysis is the automatic
search for genes and regulatory sequences within a genome. Not all of the nucleotides within a genome are genes. Within the genome of higher organisms, ...
Biological psychology
... may use their knowledge of the brain , from neurotransmitters to the cerebral cortex to treat their patients. Others may use this knowledge to
search for biological causes for common mental illnesses, such as depression and schizophrenia .
Many psychologists focus largely on the mental ...
Charles Darwin
... project he started was getting the expert reports on his collection published as a multi-volume Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle , and a
search for sponsorship was answered when Henslow used his contacts with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Thomas Spring Rice to arrange a Treasury grant ...
Bioinformatics
... and often used at least partially on organisms with much larger genomes.
Another aspect of bioinformatics in sequence analysis is the automatic
search for genes and regulatory sequences within a genome. Not all of the nucleotides within a genome are genes. Within the genome of higher organisms, ...
Cryptozoology
... ) to exist, but for which conclusive proof does not yet exist; or are generally considered extinct , but occasionally reported. Those who study or
search for such animals are called cryptozoologists , while the hypothetical creatures involved are referred to by some as "cryptids".
Invention of ...
Fitness landscape
... , pp. 355-366, 1932 .
Richard Dawkins . Climbing Mount Improbable . New York: Norton, 1996 .
Stuart Kauffman . At Home in the Universe: The
search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity . New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 .
Melanie Mitchell . An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms ...
Francis Crick
... A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (Basic Books reprint edition, 1990) ISBN 0465091385
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific
search For The Soul (Scribner reprint edition, 1995) ISBN 0684801582
Books about Crick
James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal ...
Francis Galton
... work (including all his major books and over 300 of his scientific papers)
The National Portrait Gallery has 6 portraits of Galton
search the collection
...
Genetic fingerprinting
... legal code of the jurisdiction in which it is performed. Usually the testing is voluntary, but it can be made compulsory by such instruments as a
search warrant or court order . Several jurisdictions have also begun to assemble databases containing DNA information of convicts. The United Kingdom ...
Homunculus
... is a song by the indie/experimental band Xiu Xiu . It appears on their album Knife Play ( 2002 ).
References
Florescu, Radu (1975) In
search of Frankenstein. Warner Books, New York.
Gregory, R.L. (1990) Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing, Oxford University Press Inc. New York.
...
Human Genome Project
... also many tangible benefits for biological scientists. For example, a researcher investigating a certain form of cancer may have narrowed down his
search to a particular gene. By visiting the human genome database on the world-wide web, this researcher can examine what other scientists have written ...
Ion channel
... work by plugging ion channel pores. But ion channels figure in a wide variety of biological processes that involve rapid changes in cells. In the
search for any drug, ion channels are a favorite target.
Diversity and activation
Voltage-gated channels sense the transmembrane potential ...
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
... the word Biology .
External links
Lamarck's works and heritage (in English)
Lamarck's books (complete collection in full text) with
search engine.
Lamarck's herbarium for botanists
...
Promoter
... the relationship between mutations and natural variation in gene sequence and susceptibility to hundreds of diseases , it requires a sophisticated
search strategy to extract those diseases that are associated with defects in transcriptional control where the promoter is believed to have direct ...
Species
... be expected to carry an acorn; the dispersal distance of Numbats is about 15 kilometres, as this is as far as young Numbats will normally travel in
search of vacant territory to occupy after leaving the nest. The narrower the hybrid zone relative to the dispersal distance, the less gene flow there is ...