Popular Science announces second annual 'Brilliant 10:' the country's top young scientists
...titute of Technology, for his work in the field of computational origami. At age 14 as a grad student, Delmaine wa...nfolding it. He found the answer and helped launch computational origami, a hybrid discipline--part computer science, part mathematics--that explores complex geometr...Leading bacterial pathogen is sequenced
..., through collaboration with Cornell Theory Center computational biologists Samuel Cartinhour and David Schneider of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. P. syringae is a major agricultural pathogen, causing bacterial speck on tomatoes. It produces black lesions, often wit...Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded crop protection patent
...n genetics, chemistry, cell biology, biochemistry, computational genomics and structural biology. From 1991 to 1998, Beachy headed the Division of Plant Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, a leading biomedical research center in La Jolla, California. He was also Professor and Scripps Family Chair in Cell B...UCLA receives NSF award for plasma research
...ical advances and especially highlights the strong computational research programs in plasma science and technology...orward for the organization and development of the computational infrastructure at UCLA, critical to both the UCLA research enterprise and to our national and intern...PNNL supercomputer fastest open system in U.S.
...ance was best tailored to the needs of the complex computational chemistry done at PNNL. The additional power and speed will enable novel studies in atmospheric chemistry, systems biology, catalysis and materials science."...Study at TSRI links dozens of proteins to several rare muscle and nerve degeneration diseases
...e proteins. From this list they were able to apply computational methods to limit the final list of new human nuclear membrane proteins to 62. The scientists then took eight of these proteins at random and demonstrated that they all indeed targeted to the nuclear membrane. The new nuclear membrane proteins i...7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences
...in fuzzy theory and technology; natural computing; computational biology; photonics; and computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing, among others. About 400 technical papers will be presented over the five-day conference. JCIS 2003 will include ten individual conferences and workshops on the followi...Harvard Medical School launches new department to study human biology at the level of whole systems
..., organisms. And this requires not only advanced computational models but the acquisition of new quantitative data, often with new methods capable of interrogating the activity of a large number of genes within whole cells or whole organisms. In evaluating this challenge, we reached the conclusion that the sc...Software tackles protein pathways
...d Institute scientists promises to apply this same computational muscle to the far more intricate world of protein interaction networks, giving researchers a new view of the complexities of cellular life. DNA sequencing technologies allow scientists to easily identify genes and their nucleotide building blocks --...Researchers solve the mystery of a key structure in immune system cells
...aborty. "We only realized this with the use of a computational analysis that allowed us to see how all these diff... imagine how this kind of union would work between computational biology and what I would call wet biology," he notes. "But this was a case where I really thought it...NSF grant to ORNL is big step toward national cyberinfrastructure
... the other awardees bring a rich mixture of shared computational resources, analytic tools and data assets that enable research and education at a scope and scale that were previously impossible," Crawford said. "The resources and expertise that these partners bring to the Extensible Terascale Facility demonstrate...NIH announces strategy to accelerate medical research progress
... images of molecular and cellular events, improved computational infrastructure for biomedical research and tiny, nanotechnology devices capable of viewing and interacting with basic life processes. These initiatives will provide a solid scientific foundation for new strategies for diagnosing, treating and prevent...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...le without scientists to review the literature and computational biologists to make a database that is truly easy to use." Academic researchers will have free access to the database. Johns Hopkins Licensing and Technology Development is currently establishing licensing criteria for companies interested in using...PNNL wins record $10.2 million NIH grant for proteomics center
...s instrumentation, the grant will support improved computational and bioinformatics tools for extracting and visualizing and ultimately understanding the data produced in the resource center, Smith said. The research creates quantities of data that in many cases can be analyzed only with computer programs develop...Beyond genes: Scientists venture deeper into the human genome
...on base pairs in human DNA. "Our experimental and computational methods are still primitive when it comes to identifying functional elements that are not involved in protein coding. That has to change. So, with NHGRI's support, research teams around the world are embarking on a daunting mission: to build a compre...From genome comparisons, UCSD researchers learn lessons about evolution and cancer
...chitecture of our genomes. Their work was based on computational analysis and comparison of the human and mouse gen...f PNAS, along with a commentary by two pioneers in computational biology: University of Ottawa mathematician David Sankoff, and Case Western Reserve University genet...NSF awards $31.9 million in grants to study biocomplexity in the environment
...ughs in particle physics and genetics, advances in computational science, information technology and microsensors, ...ions are at the interfaces of disciplines, such as computational ecology and environmental genetics." NSF's Special Competition in Biocomplexity in the Environment: ...Grant of powerful computer to Rutgers-Newark will increase understanding of brain activity
...r, second to second, would take vast quantities of computational power. The grant means that Rutgers-Newark researchers can spend less time involved in tedious number-crunching and more time looking at the data to figure out why the brain is using certain areas in conjunction with others to accomplish things. The...Carnegie Mellon receives $2.5M to develop bio-molecular imaging and information discovery systems
...educate graduate students in the emerging field of computational biology, Murphy said....Michigan receives NCRR grant for tomorrow's proteomics technology
...ew mapping technologies, and improved software and computational tools." Back in 1998, when the field of proteomics was in its infancy, Andrews received a $750,000 pilot grant from the U-M Medical School to create the first U-M proteomics center. "The initial investment by the Medical School allowed us to build th...