Tiny traits cause big headaches

Tiny Medicine, Big World

Thinking Big About Tiny Databases

Work on early tiny database systems, like TinyDB [17] and Cougar [23] has shown that a declarative approach can provide a powerful and easy to use interface for collecting data from static sensor networks. These early systems, however, have significant limitations; in particular, they are useful only for low-rate data collection applications on static sensor networks and they don’t integrate we...

Big Projects Targeting Tiny Pathogens

Big lab on a tiny chip.

■ Ultimately, consumers could have labs-on-chips in their home for fast diagnosis of common illnesses. —The Editors Imagine shrinking the beakers, eyedroppers, chemicals and heaters of a chemistry lab onto a little microchip that could dangle from a key chain. A growing number of companies and universities are claiming to have devised such marvels, ready to perform vital analyses from detecting...

MicroRNAs in diabetes: tiny players in big disease.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a novel group of universally present small non-coding RNAs that have been implicated in wide ranging physiological processes and thereby are critical in the manifestation of diverse diseases. Since their discovery as developmental regulators in C.elegans, they have come a long way and are currently associated with normal and diverse pathophysiological states including Par...