MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'brainbow'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:59:50 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4450389&cid=t_154898_122_f&fid=35068&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrainwindows.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F08%2Fquick-picks-brainbow-flies%2F Nature methods published two papers which extend brainbow-like techniques of stochastic multicolored neuronal labeling into fruit flies.  Nature’s summary explains the two methods.   dBrainbow expression examples     The first technique, called dBrainbow, was developed by Julie Simpson, a neuroscientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, and her colleagues2. This method uses enzymes called recombinases to randomly delete some of the colour-producing genes from the string, leaving different genes next to the promoter regions in different cells. Individual cells are therefore uniquely coloured and so can be easily distinguished… The second technique, called Flybow, was developed by Salecker and ... Brain Windows blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4450389 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:05:00 +0100 4450389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636110&cid=t_154898_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twiv.tv%2FIMG_0091.MOV Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Marc Pelletier On episode #115 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich and Marc discuss the finding that a limited number of incoming herpesviral genomes can replicate and express in a cell, and controlling viral replication in Aedes aegypti with a Wolbachia symbiont. Right click to download TWiV #115 (84 MB .mp3, 117 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email, or listen on your mobile device with Stitcher Radio. Links for this episode: Replication and expression of limited numbers of incoming viral genomes The brainbow cassette Release of Wolbachia infected mosquitoes in Australia (story one, two) Journal articles on Wolbachia infection of mosquitoes... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636110 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:46:16 +0100 4636110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=999436&cid=t_154898_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F02%2Fover-the-brainbow%2F I’m a big fan of cell imaging - pretty pictures of fluorescent cells always enhance a conference presentation. A Harvard team have taken fluorescent labelling to a new level, using combinatorial fluorescent proteins to image brain tissue in 90 distinct colours. What’s more, they’ve come up with a memorable word in “brainbow”. Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous system (Nature abstract) Colours light up brain structure (Nature News) Cell stains create a ‘brainbow’ (BBC Science News) Search: brainbow at del.icio.us (Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate) What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=999436 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:05:55 +0100 999436