Molecular computing using programmable nucleic acids has been attracting attention for use in autonomous sensing systems and information processing systems by interacting with a biological environment. Here, we introduce a rule-based in vitro molecular classification system that can classify disease patterns using several microRNA (miRNA) markers via the assembly of programmed DNA strands. The ...

Nordqvist, S. 2014. Biological Markers of Fertility. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1048. 74 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9085-0. Infertility affects 15 % of couples, which corresponds to 60 80 million worldwide. The microenvironments in which the oocyte, embryo and fetus mature are vital to the establishment...

Way back in 1898 Freud, the propounder of psychoanalysis and enunciator of psychological concepts of mental illnesses wrote to his friend Fliess—"I have no desire at all to leave the psychology hanging in the air with no organic basis but beyond the feeling of conviction (that there must be such a basis), I have nothing either theoretical or therapeutic to work on and so I must behave as if con...

The recent advances in molecular genetics (Gershon et al. 1987) have given a new impetus to the search for biological markers of depression. It is now feasible to use molecular techniques to study the functional expression of specific genes associated with clearly defined marker abnormalities in patients with depression. Such studies could yield valuable information regarding the classification...

Genetic diversity among plants sprouted from seven year old clones of mulberry (Morus indica var. S36) was studied using molecular markers such as ISSR and RAPD. The clones showed significant variability in sex expression and the sprouting behavior. These changes were appeared after seven years of rigorous pruning and training (pruned once in every 3-4months). Genetic diversity analysis reveale...

Down syndrome is one of the most common causes of mental retardation observed in approximately 1/700 live birth. The use of two or more STR markers related to chromosome 21 facilitates the diagnosis of Down syndrome within about six hours from the collection of the samples. This is the first study has been performed in Iranian population to assess the diagnostic value of using small tandem repe...