Using fMRI to deepen our understanding of design fixation

A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates’ Environmental Backgrounds

Universities often lack a detailed understanding of the environmental backgrounds of their students. One way to improve understanding is through segmentation, which breaks down a population into groups of people with similar characteristics. This study aims to use segmentation to determine groups within the student population, based on environmental attitudes, and compare these groups in terms ...

Using biological networks to improve our understanding of infectious diseases

Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death, particularly in developing countries. Although many drugs are available for treating the most common infectious diseases, in many cases the mechanism of action of these drugs or even their targets in the pathogen remain unknown. In addition, the key factors or processes in pathogens that facilitate infection and disease progression are often n...

Battle lines deepen to save bluefin tuna

Germany has joined Britain, France and the Netherlands in backing Monaco’s proposal to seek a listing for bluefi n tuna by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which would ban all trade in the fi sh. The measure is seen by Monaco as the only option now open to preserve the species many biologists believe could be wiped out from the Mediterranean by 2012 at cu...

Advancing our understanding of the human microbiome using QIIME.

High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies, coupled with advanced bioinformatics tools, have enabled rapid advances in microbial ecology and our understanding of the human microbiome. QIIME (Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology) is an open-source bioinformatics software package designed for microbial community analysis based on DNA sequence data, which provides a single analysis framew...

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