Green Foundation, Trust gives $12.8 million for UT Southwestern comprehensive research center
...lman said scientists must have the latest tools in computer science, engineering and imaging technology, and t...d analysis of cellular metabolism and function. "A computer model of a cell or organ is a fantastic long-term goal, and it's absolutely going to happen someday....New systems biology center positions UT Southwestern in vanguard of scientific research
...lines including biology, physics, mathematics and computer science come together to create models of biologi...n said one goal of systems biology is to develop a computer model of an entire cell. Such a model would revolutionize drug development, allowing the most promi...Oxidation processes basis of interdisciplinary research, graduate training
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...mation, tools and techniques to attendees by using computer simulations or photographic or video descriptions or by interacting with an innovation itself. Scientists and developers are available to discuss their innovations and offer free publications, guides and software. For more information on the 2004 I...Statistical technique helps researchers gain more information from a single data run
... also help researchers with a major problem of the computer age large volumes of data mixed with noise. "Their dimension reduction and ability to deal with huge data sets are also strengths of wavelets," he added. "Very nasty data can be de-noised almost in real-time by selecting a few of the important wav...Improved medical treatment of serious heart problems focus of UH-led group
...ut it has been only recently that state-of-the-art computer technology and scientific computing enabled true c...omplicated set of problems in the mathematical and computer simulation of various cardiovascular diseases. In addition to Canic, who is the founder of this gro...Human evolution at the crossroads: Integrating genetics and paleontology
...genetics and biomedicine, coupled with advances in computer technology, now provide us with a wealth of new information from which to better understand the genetic and non-genetic influences underlying primate, including human, evolution," Hlusko said in an interview. "By combining these different data sets w...K-State professor to give paper on potential impact of ag bioterrorism
...dress, enabling the scientist to see through their computer screen exactly what the diagnostician is seeing through their microscope. "It's a very sophisticated system," Stack said. "It allows you to get expert help if you're unsure of something. The expert lab can send back to you what the real specimen w...Computer scientists develop tool for mining genomic data
...sly uncharacterized proteins. ''The creativity and computer science perspective brought to these problems by Koller and her collaborators provide a tremendous boost to biology,'' says Matthew Scott, a developmental biologist at Stanford and chair of the scientific leadership council of Bio-X, an interdiscipli...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
...ccessed by 'bad guys,'" says emeritus professor of computer science Gio Wiederhold, who will speak about trusted information databases Feb. 14 in Seattle at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). "Passwords and other means of access control are okay, but addition...Planning effective bioterror responses
...beings. Instead, they have turned to sophisticated computer models to simulate the phenomenon. For smallpox, a new study by Ira Longini of Emory University and colleagues suggests that the current U.S. government control policy isolating new cases and vaccinating their close contacts should be sufficient to...Carnegie Mellon scientist says new technologies boost bio-terrorism surveillance
...technologies created by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Latanya Sweeney, who will speak at 11 a.... for International Data Privacy and a professor of computer science, technology and policy. "Our commercially available technologies allow medical data to be sh...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
...ts on each animal group as well as oceanographers, computer modelers, database managers, educators and journalists. The result of these workshops was a research plan that extends to 2010. At the same time, the TOPP team managed to deploy more than 800 tags on 17 different animal species. These pilot field stu...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
... one of the technical challenges is developing the computer tools to track tagged sea animals at the same frequency and resolution that physical scientists can use satellite information to follow how currents flow and sea temperatures change. Such correlations are important because sea temperatures and curren......anford Universitycomputer model to derive NPP. The computer model created a potential pre-urban Americanlandscape, which was used to compare and estimate the reductionof NPP due to current urban-land transformation. For the continental United States, when compared to the pre-urban landscape, modern cities acc...Imaging technique discovered at Stanford monitors cancer cell proliferation
...said Jones. "We're probably going to have to get a computer that thinks like we do."...Story tips from the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2004
... is undergoing evaluation on a suite of scientific computer programs including global climate modeling, high-t...TROPHYSICS --Theory behind the spectacle . . . New computer models have bolstered the case for a theory of what causes a white-dwarf supernova to occur. Under c...House dust mite project aims to reduce asthma
...t in the UK on treating them. The technique uses a computer model to assess how modifying a domestic environment can reduce numbers of house dust mites in beds, carpets and elsewhere. Development of the model has been led by University College London (UCL), in collaboration with Cambridge University and othe...Could memory performance and spatial learning be genetically based?
...sk was performed using a circular water maze and a computer tracking system. A circular platform was placed at the center of one of four imaginary quadrants and the water rendered opaque. Swim distance was used to evaluate performance. In the hidden platform version of the maze task the platform was submer...