Essays Tagged: "Whitehead Institute"

X Chromosome and Intelligence

may show that genes on the X chromosome may play a direct role. David Page, interim director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, admits that attempts to lin ...

(5 pages) 28 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

DNA Sequencing and computer

t to introduce some DNA sequencing software programs that are used in DNA sequencing analysis.BASS (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)Bass is Unix-based software for tracking, extracting, an ...

(2 pages) 11 0 3.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

The success of cloning Dolly the sheep five years ago

loning to be effective and safe? A new study conducted by Rudlolf Jaenisch and his collegues at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reveals that the genomes of ...

(2 pages) 2118 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

BSE disease and the prion PrP that causes it.

was posted on Feb 14th, '06, on the Bioinfo Online website, and talks about how researchers at the Whitehead Institute & Harvard Medical School have discovered that the normal form of this prion ... ly found that PrP helps to preserve stem cells in blood, so this current team's (from Harvard & Whitehead) research investigated if there was any connection between PrP and brain cells where these ...

(1 pages) 1412 0 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology