Research News

Collaboration seeks to unlock secrets of neuromuscular disease

6 July 2010
A 7.5m euro EU-funded research project is to concentrate on the search for non-invasive biomarkers in people with the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and Collagen VI myopathies

Experts head to Robot World Cup

25 June 2010
Scientists from the Oxford University Computing Laboratory are among those heading to Robocup - the Robot World Cup - in Singapore, to battle it out in the simulated rescue competition

Genedata participates in applied pathogenomics project

15 June 2010
Genedata has been selected to participate in an ERA-Net-funded applied pathogenomics project, which is using systems biology to identify the role of small non-coding RNA (sncRNA) in infectious diseases

Riken Institute launches rational genome design competition

2 June 2010
The Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering (BASE), a division of Riken, Japan's flagship research institute, is holding its first ever International Rational Genome Design*1 Contest (GenoCon) on the semantic web

Computational model aids plant species research

2 June 2010
Scientists in Georgia have teamed up with Microsoft Research Cambridge and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to create a sustainable harvesting model to help protect populations of the snowdrop plant