Ageing and ethics

With longevity gene having found, where do we see the ethics, values and policy choices? Do you think we should allow a person to live up-to 125 years?

Ageing and ethics?

with longevity gene discovered in human (http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080831/full/news.2008.1070.html ), do you think a person is allowed to live 125 years?
what Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices ... would you see in this?

Do you think aborting a handicapped foetus is allowed?

Recent news from various countries disallows handicapped foetus to be aborted
Opine!

Biology meets Mathematics. Discuss

With Bioinformatics clubbed with cross-disciplinary subjects, there is a growing emphasis on Mathematical Biology. The recent discovery of role of Mathematical Biology in helping the prognosis for Leukemia therapy has been successful.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112932.php


Discuss!

Advocating Personalized Genomics

The era of perosnalized genomics has begun with a person's genome that could be sequenced for just 100 USD by 2015. And recently, several laws have been broken with respect to descriminating people based on the genes.

Do you think there should be more stringent rules? Please opine

Whither human interactome?

Any thoughts on how the entire human interactome would look like?

Defining Omics-es

Dear All,
There are over 380 Omics-es defined so far. Ever since the Gregor Mendelian age, people started defining many omes. But when the Genome was conceptualized, it was considered from GEN+ChromosOME. While today shouldn't there be a debate for other omes as most of the omes today are always relevant to many: For example, proteomics, study of many proteins etc...

Have your say please!

Are we still evolving?

Yes, would be the answer from many. But How? Let's discuss

Does Impact factor matter?

Impact factor(IF) for a publication does matter for scientists as a measure of citations. What do you opine on papers that are published in no-so-called high IFs reach scientists?

Discuss!

Looking back at 2007: Sequencing ruled!

Dear All,

While welcoming 2008, lets keep root thoughts on sequencing, the year 2007 ushered.

What do you think of the future of next generation sequencing technologies?

Computational Epidemiology is the passion now

Computational Epidemiology in combating diseases like AIDS has become the front runners for Bioinformaticists in helping molecular biologists discover or model genes.

Are you the one in this field?

Comment

And yet another member: Cat joins the genome club. Comment!

And yet another member: Cat joins the genome club. Comment!

Courtesy:

Nature

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071031/full/news.2007.208.html

Understanding Complex Diseases : A Bioinformatical approach

Researchers have been using in silio approaches to identify some regions of interest in proteins to elucidate how complex diseases could deal with?

What and How do you think it would help us?

Federated databases on rise: The next big thing in Bioinformatics!

Would you like to see your query processed at one go for Bioinformatics databases of your interest?

If yes federated databases is the one right point to start with.
Excerpts at

http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/2164

Bioinformatics and you?

Where do you stand yourself between your research and Bioinformatics?

Comment please!

Is there a trouble with animal models?

Have you ever experienced trouble with animal models? With dog also considered a candidate model for research, what do you opine on above statement?

Personal genome maps ? Oops! Are we wasting too much money and time?

Personal genome maps ? Oops! Are we wasting too much money and time?

Opine

Excerpts from http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/447358a.html

Cells that read minds

Cells that read minds? It certainly ring bells!

Picture and excerpts from

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/science/10mirr.html?ex=1294549200&en=4b525f923a669928&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Very interesting one

Any thoughts please?

Say 'Ome' ? Not always!

Ome means many(~money) But in case of Dinosaurs..." Many had surprisingly tiny genomes"

Excerpts from
http://www.huliq.com/13968/many-dinosaurs-had-surprisingly-tiny-genomes

So "Omy" doesn't apply for such tiny genomes. What do you think?

Theoretical Model depositions in Protein Data Bank are no longer accepted: Where do we stand now?

Start October 15, 2006, theoretical Model depositions in Protein Data Bank are no longer accepted: Where do we stand now? What do you think of the theoretical structure prediction henceforth?

Comment please!