Month: September 2022

DIVERSITY FOR PROTECTION. "A potential explanation for increased genetic diversity in the aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthetic pathway may be that gene expression diversity enables response to fluctuations in natural insect populations between different generations." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

DUPLICATIONS FOR VARIATION. "This work shows that the availability of gene duplications and the function of biochemical pathways interact to influence gene expression variation across a diverse array of biological and genetic factors." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

GRIST FOR EVOLUTION. "I suggest a model in which gene duplication provides raw material for evolution but, at least in metabolic pathways, the biology of the pathway determines the likelihood that duplicated genes are maintained and evolve altered functionality." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

TWO FUNCTIONS. "In secondary metabolic pathways where variation is required, duplicates will be maintained and evolve diverse expression patterns. In primary metabolic pathways where variation may be detrimental, this may actually select against the presence of duplicated genes and variable expression patterns." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

NEED FOR FUNCTIONAL DATA. "In the absence of functional biochemical evidence, it is difficult to classify gene expression changes between tandem duplicates as true sub-functionalization versus neo-functionalization coupled with intraspecific gene expression variation." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

ROBOT TEAMS. "We must build teams of possibly heterogeneous robots that can work together to accomplish a mission that no individual robot can accomplish alone." https://lnkd.in/e3yjqqd View in LinkedIn

CAREGIVER APPS. "Creating autonomous robots that assist humans in situations of daily life has always been among the most important visions in robotics research." https://lnkd.in/dBANstU View in LinkedIn

ROBOT CARETAKERS. “In late 2011, Toyota Motor Corp. reported that it planned to release a group of robots that will act as health-care aids by 2013. The robots are being designed to lift patients and to help people suffering from paralysis to walk again." https://lnkd.in/dhUaYtk View in LinkedIn

INDUSTRIAL APPS. "The project aspires to the integration of the latest industrial automation systems for assembly operations, in combination with human capabilities. Focus is given to combining robot strength, velocity, predictability, repeatability and precision with human intelligence and skills to get at a hybrid solution that would be involving the safe cooperation of operators with autonomous and adapting robotic systems." https://lnkd.in/ddC3WcP View in LinkedIn

HUMAN-ROBOT COOPERATION. "Direct cooperation between man and machine: At its main plant in Ingolstadt, Audi has for the first time deployed a robot that works “hand-in-hand” with humans – without a safety barrier and ideally adapted to the employees’ working cycles. It is the first human-robot cooperation at the Volkswagen Group to be applied in final assembly." http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_center/en/news/2015/02/cooperation.html View in LinkedIn