The second issue of Emerging Cancer Therapeutics focuses on multiple myelomas also known as plasma cell myeloma, Kahler’s Disease and myelomatosis. It is estimated that over 20,000 new cases are diagnosed each year with over 10,000 people dying from these malignancies. Multiple myelomas are highly treatable but rarely curable. Thus it is crucial for the [...]
Mapping the Multiple Myeloma Genome Will Provide New Clues to It’s C auses This week, a set of multiple myeloma genomes sequencing project have been successfully completed! The initial analysis of the sequencing data revealed the assortment of mutated genes involved in the multiple myeloma (that have never been suspected before). This makes possible the [...]
Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field incorporating the principles of biology, chemistry, engineering, and medicine to create biological substitutes of native tissues for scientific research or clinical use. Applications of this technology include studies of tissue development and function, investigations of drug response, and tissue repair and replacement. Tissue engineering is rapidly becoming one of [...]
I was quite lucky today! My day started with interactive exploring the Universe with the interactive media “Scale of the Universe” developed by Cary Huang at htwins. You can start Exploring the Universe from the “quantum foam” – the first physical sense. Continue through neutrinos, quarks and moving to the chemical world of atoms and [...]
Which species has the largest genome? Humans? No… Ahhh, I remember the polyploidy was a process observed in higher plants. Then, well it could be a plant? OK, here is the answer – the largest genome belongs to Paris japonica, a rare Japanese flower. The flower has the unbelievable 149 billion base pairs, which is [...]
It was very hard to select my first “Bio Celebrity”. At the end my choice is – The Spliceosome! The spliceosome is the component that makes possible the “maturation” of the mRNAs (removing the introns from the transcribed pre-mRNAs) and which was more important for my choice, the spliceosome determines the genetic diversity in eukaryotes [...]
Learning by playing game is well known to be the best cognitive approach used in the education. Today I have found a very intriguing interactive cell flash game developed by Kongregate Games, called CellCraft. Well the game covers just some basic cell biology processes, but describes them in a very easily understandable way. The processes [...]
OpenPCR project – Open Source and Hackable PCR Machine Recently I came up to a cool project – OpenPCR, which aims to develop an “open design” of a PCR machine. The project goal is to get a working prototype (and free schematics) of a computer controlled PCR machine that uses normal PCR tubes and is [...]