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Every week, John Horgan takes a puckish, provocative look at breaking science. A former staff writer at Scientific American, he is the author of four books, the most recent of which is The End of War (to be published by McSweeney''s Books January 17, 2012). He currently directs the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology. He lives in New York State''s Hudson Highlands, where he plays ice hockey each winter to hone his cross-checking skills.

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Donor Alliance is one of 58 not-for-profit organ recovery organizations federally designated by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to facilitate the donation and recovery of organs for people needing transplants. Additionally, Donor Alliance is a recognized leader in facilitating the donation and recovery of transplantable tissues in Colorado and most of Wyoming. Our goal is to save the lives of people in need. To achieve this, Donor Alliance employs effective family approach and recovery programs in more than 100 hospitals in Colorado and Wyoming. Additionally, Donor Alliance dedicates time, funding and effort toward increasing the number of registered organ and tissue donors through active public awareness and educational programs and grassroots public relations campaigns.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on November 22, 2022. Data set collected at the Children''s Hospital Boston, of EEG recordings from pediatric subjects with intractable seizures. Subjects were monitored for up to several days following withdrawal of anti-seizure medication in order to characterize their seizures and assess their candidacy for surgical intervention. All signals were sampled at 256 samples per second with 16-bit resolution. Most files contain 23 EEG signals (24 or 26 in a few cases).

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The GO Consortium coordinates an effort to maximize and optimize the GO annotation of a large and representative set of key genomes, known as ''reference genomes''. The goal of the Reference Genome Annotation project is to completely annotate twelve reference genomes so that those annotations may be used to effectively seed the automatic annotation efforts of other genomes. With more and more genomes being sequenced, we are in the middle of an explosion of genomic information. The limited resources to manually annotate the growing number of sequenced genomes imply that automatic annotation will be the method of choice for many groups. The Reference Genome project has two primary goals: to increase the depth and breadth of annotations for genes in each of the organisms in the project, and to create data sets and tools that enable other genome annotation efforts to infer GO annotations for homologous genes in their organisms. In addition, the project has several important incidental benefits, such as increasing annotation consistency across genome databases, and providing important improvements to the GO''s logical structure and biological content. All GO annotations from this project are included in the gene association files that each group submits to GO. Annotations can also be viewed using the GO search engine and browser AmiGO. Annotated families can be viewed with the homolog set browser.

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The TFSEARCH searches highly correlated sequence fragments against TFMATRIX transcription factor binding site profile database in the "TRANSFAC" databases developed at GBF-Braunschweig, Germany. The TFSEARCH program was written by Yutaka Akiyama (Kyoto University, currently at RWCP) in 1995.

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Launched in 2005, the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is a research campaign within the Simons Foundation''s overall suite of programs. SFARI''s mission is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders by funding, catalyzing and driving innovative research of the greatest quality and relevance. Although SFARI''s priority is to benefit individuals challenged by these disorders, its efforts are certain to yield insights into the neural mechanisms of fundamental human capabilities, thereby promoting the broader mission of the Simons Foundation to advance the frontiers of research in the basic sciences and mathematics. Autism spectrum disorders are a set of complex developmental disorders characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and interaction, as well as restricted behaviors, interests or activities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that roughly 1 in 110 children in the U.S. have autism, with many more boys affected than girls. These disorders cost the U.S. economy an estimated $35 billion dollars each year in direct care costs and lost productivity, and extract an incalculable human toll.

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The Broadband Forum is the central organization driving broadband wireline solutions and empowering converged packet networks worldwide to better meet the needs of vendors, service providers and their customers. They develop multi-service broadband packet networking specifications addressing interoperability, architecture and management. Their work enables home, business and converged broadband services, encompassing customer, access and backbone networks. Keywords: Vendor, Service, Broadband, Wireline, Forum, Network,

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Biomedical technology research center that develops new algorithms, visualizations and conceptual frameworks to study biological networks at multiple levels and scales, from protein-protein and genetic interactions to cell-cell communication and vast social networks. They are developing freely available, open-source suite of software technology that broadly enables network-based visualization, analysis, and biomedical discovery for NIH-funded researchers. This software is enabling researchers to assemble large-scale biological data into models of networks and pathways and to use these networks to better understand how biological systems operate under normal conditions and how they fail in disease. The National Resource for Network Biology is organized around the following key components: Technology Research and Development, Driving Biomedical Projects, Outreach, Training and Dissemination of Tools. The NRNB supports several types of training events, including both virtual and live workshops; tutorials sessions for clinicians, biologists and bioinformaticians; presentations and demonstrations at conferences; online tutorials and webcasts; and annual symposium.

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Biospecimen repository for tumor specimens, available to all researchers actively engaged in cancer research whether they are in University, Academic, or Pharmaceutical industry, with a goal to accelerate the discovery and development of new agents for the treatment and cure of cancer. The START tumor bank was created to make tumor tissue gifted by patients receiving care or treatment at The START Center available to all researchers involved in developing a better understanding of the biology of cancer or those engaged in the discovery of new therapies. The START Tumor Bank is a department within the PK Department and handles skin and tumor biopsies required by clinical trial protocols. A member of the PK Department is present during biopsy procedures for immediate processing of the sample for the trial. Additionally, the Tumor Bank collects and banks the tumor tissues of patients who consent. This tissue is then stored for future use by researchers developing new therapies.

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HHMI Center for integrated teams of lab scientists and tool builders to share methods, results, and tools with the scientific community. Janelia Research campus is a research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute located in Ashburn, Virginia.

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The Biorepository contains plasma, serum, RNA stabilized buffy coat, urine, viable tumor samples, and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor; all with associated clinical information. These can be provided to investigators with Cancer Sample Banking Committee approval (IRB approval is also required for projects requesting ongoing sample collection or clinical annotation.) Urine and blood-derived specimens are available from a wide variety of cancer cases and cancer-free controls. Tumor sample availability is more limited and predominately from breast and gastrointestinal malignancies. Samples are collected from consented subjects and de-identified clinical information on the subjects is collected over time. Subjects are consented for research germ line genotyping. Access to the clinical annotation is determined based on need as justified in each investigator''s request or protocol. Anonymized samples from the biorepository are available compliant with UCSD HRPP exempt category 4.

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An Antibody supplier

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Online textbook that has evolved into an interactive, dynamic blog that covers all things related to the bioscience of the visual system. It summarizes recent advances in knowledge and understanding of the visual system through dedicated chapters and evolving discussion to serve as a clearing house for all things related to retina and vision science.

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Interactive graphical browser for biological networks and molecular interaction data. The N-Browse server at NYU currently provides access to a variety of large-scale functional genomic datasets from several species.

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Provia Laboratories Inc. offers Store-A-Tooth, the industry-leading dental stem cell banking service for preserving the stem cells found in baby teeth and wisdom teeth. Store-A-Tooth is a service that provides you the opportunity to store the stem cells inside of teeth that come out. Eligible teeth include baby teeth, wisdom teeth, and other healthy teeth that need to be surgically extracted during the normal course of dental care. Store-A-Tooth has been available since 2006 from dentists across the U.S. At the core of our tooth transport device is the Save-A-Tooth device, which is FDA-approved and ADA accepted for the preservation of avulsed teeth. We use Save-A-Tooth for tooth collection and transport to ensure optimal viability of your sample for processing and cryopreservation. Our laboratory is FDA-registered, CLIA-certified, and AABB-accredited.

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Ontology designed as a structured controlled vocabulary for cell types. It was constructed for use by the model organism and other bioinformatics databases. It includes cell types from prokaryotes, mammals, and fungi. The ontology is available in the formats adopted by the Open Biological Ontologies umbrella and is designed to be used in the context of model organism genome and other biological databases.

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R package for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data.

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A repository for bacterial small regulatory RNA. They welcome you to submit new experimental validated sRNA targets.

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The DNA Bank accepts the clinical samples from projects that have been approved by the Committee on Human Research (CHR). Genomic DNA isolation is performed utilizing standardized and quality controlled Gentra Systems'' PureGene DNA isolation system or Qiagen Kits. The quantity and quality of the genomic DNA isolate is determined by 260/280 UV spectrophotometery. Following isolation and quality assessment, DNA can be aliquoted into a normalized concentration. The preparation of aliquots serves to allow ready distribution of DNA samples to both the client laboratory and their collaborators and to preclude excessive routine freezing and thawing of the primary DNA isolate, a practice which is well known to result in notable degradation of genomic DNA stocks. All samples are stored in alarmed Revco ultra-low freezers at -80����?����?����?��������C. All of the ultra-low freezer units utilized by the DNA Bank are monitored by a temperature sensitive alarm system that provides 24 hour oversight. In the event of a power outage, all freezers are on an emergency back-up electrical generator.

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StRAnGER (Statistical Ranking of ANotated Genomic Experimental Results) is a web application for the automated statistical analysis of annotated gene profiling experiments, exploiting controlled biological vocabularies, like the Gene Ontology or the KEGG pathways terms. Starting from annotated lists of differentially expressed genes StRAnGER repartitions and reorders the initial distribution of terms to define a new distribution of elements where each element pools terms holding the same enrichment score. The elements are then prioritized according to StRAnGER''''s algorithm and, by applying bootstrapping techniques, a corrected measure of the statistical significance of these elements is derived, enabling the selection of terms mapped to these elements, unambiguously associated with respective significant gene sets. Besides their high statistical score, another selection criterion for the terms is the number of their members, something that incurs a biological prioritization in line with a Systems Biology context. Platform: Online tool

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