A nuclear stress test is one of several types of stress tests that may be performed alone or in combination. Compared with an exercise stress test, a nuclear stress test can help better determine your risk of a heart attack or other cardiac event if your doctor knows or suspects that you have coronary artery disease.
DNA microarray analysis is one of the fastest-growing new technologies in the field of genetic research. Scientists are using DNA microarrays to investigate everything from cancer to pest control. Now you can do your own DNA microarray experiment!
Microarrays are used to get clues about which genes are expressed to control cell, tissue or organ function. By measuring the level of RNA production for every gene at the same time, researchers can learn the genetic programming that makes cell types different and diseased cells different from healthy ones.y cutting and pasting the exons in different patterns, which scientists call alternative splicing, a cell can create different proteins from a single gene. Alternative splicing is one of the reasons why human cells, which have about 20,000 genes, can make hundreds of thousands of different proteins.