A great success, which can change the course of how we store our data, has been achieved by a group of scientists from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research. They used DNA as a storage media, encoded 4 large files and retrieved them almost perfectly.
PCR and qPCR made it to space. Did you know that currently a fully equipped sample-to-result molecular biology laboratory with PCR and qPCR instrument is orbiting the Earth?
I have recently read the 2014 Nature paper on which social media do scientists use and why do they use it. In the meantime a lot has changed, ResearchGate no longer has 4.5 million users, but 8 million. That does not seem much compared to 1.5 billion users Facebook has, but is...
It's like someone would force you to ride a horse to work, instead of driving a car. But let us start at the beginning.
One of the fastest growing areas in consumer tech, wearable fitness or activity trackers have captured the public imagination with growing levels of interest and adoption.
As a society living in a 21st century, we have just begun to realize how little do we know about our brain. We desperately need to understand how our brain works, so we can develop new treatments for different mental and neurological disorders. This has become one of the...
Splice is happy to share the news that sciNote Open Source Electronic Lab Notebook has been launched. We have supported sciNote throughout its successful Kickstarter campaign and we are excited to see that it is finally available to everyone for free.
Let’s take a look back at how much genome sequencing used to cost during the span of the last 15 years. In 2001, for the price of sequencing 1 human genome, a person could buy 1000 Porsche 911 cars.
Being part of a large Genomics Core facility within an academic setting (Oxford Genomics Centre), my job partly entails research into and evaluation of potentially useful software tools.
At the end of the year it is time to look back and evaluate our work and make plans for the future. The 2015 has been busy for the Splice Blog and we are especially proud of the projects we have done or those we have supported.