Scientists to make news at Computational Biology Conference
...informaticians and reach out to the communities of computer scientists that supply the computational methods and biologists that ultimately reap the fruits of the research," says Lengauer, "Thus the scientists come from different academic fields, as well as from both academia and industry. Therefore, we are c...Bull's-eye -- Programs targeting math, science teacher shortage may get boost
...r the first teachHOUSTON group, targeting those in computer science, geosciences, engineering and bioengineering, as well as those from traditional K-12 science areas. Morgan plans to add students to the program each semester, eventually expanding it to 375 students participating by the fourth year of the pr...Accident-prone? Scientists link brain function to knee injuries
...possible only if the word red was displayed on the computer screen in a red color, not if the word appeared in the color green or blue. After the season started, a number of the tested athletes ended up sustaining noncontact ACL injuries. These athletes were identified, and 80 of them were matched up to a c...The origin of perennial water-ice at the South Pole of Mars
...clusion by turning back time in their Mars climate computer model. This was done by changing the precession together with other orbital information. The scientists set the clock 21 000 years back, when the closest vicinity of the planet to the Sun corresponded to the northern summer a situation opposite t...Geologists witness unique volcanic mudflow in action in New Zealand
...rs, according to Leeman. Fagents is developing a computer model to simulate lahar emplacement and to predict the associated hazards. "The intent is to adapt this model to account for different lahar triggering mechanisms, and for different locations, to make it widely applicable," said Fagents. "The ultimat...Sour taste make you pucker? It may be in your genes
...red within the twin pairs, and then entered into a computer model to determine the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences on sour taste sensitivity. The models estimated that genes played a more important role than environment in determining individual differences in sour taste sen...Study provides new data about the laws governing embryo development in organisms
...g in their model. As Miln explains: Thanks to this computer simulation we have found a new genetic function that ensures the stability of the system and has enabled us to test its robustness. This study shows that modelling is a highly useful tool for describing in silico new properties of a biological system...'Virtual' mouse brains now available online
...mputing Center. The consortium has developed the computer infrastructure to collect a rapidly growing library of 3-D mouse brain data, and make all the data available on the web http://tinyurl.com/3cgj6z . The goal is to use mouse brains as surrogates for human brains to study the connections between genes...Scientists identify 2 distinct Parkinson's networks
...e. The scientists have also developed mathematical computer models to determine how fast the disease will progress. These scanning techniques may be helpful in determining what treatments work and what dont....Coaching computer canines in clambering
...he USC Viterbi School of Engineering department of computer science, began working on the problem more than a ...amics builds the 'bots, which come with an onboard computer chip connected to sensors. The robot is continually aware of the location of its center of gravit...Time-lapse recordings reveal why IVF embryos are more likely to develop into twins
...ted for research, Ms Payne and her colleagues used computer software called MetaMorph [1], which creates a free-running film from single images taken every two minutes with a digital camera attached to a microscope. They then used the software to analyse data from the film. After thawing, 26 of the 33 embry...Modern brains have an ancient core
...s understood it as a processing unit, a bit like a computer that integrates and interprets incoming sensory information. Now we know that the brain is itself a sensory organ and has been so since very ancient times....Getting to the root of plant growth
...t mathematical modelling techniques. By developing computer models of the root that exactly mimic biological p...l shoot and leaf development, leading to a generic computer model of a whole plant which will again be used to advance crop and plant science. Representatives...Scientists discover role of enzyme in DNA repair
...ioinformatics Inc, Robert Phair, Ph.D. developed a computer model that allowed the authors to test their hypothesis and show that while transcription continued in the cells with uninjured DNA, it came to a halt within 5 minutes at sites where the DNA had been damaged. While it was possible that the DNA lesi...DOE Joint Genome Institute secures long-term lease on production genomics facility
...rsity of California employees includes biologists, computer scientists, engineers, and support staff....18-year-old Singaporean student to present stem cell research paper at conferences in US and UK
...t the Raffles Junior College, he excelled at using computer software to analyze data from the laboratory of biologists to come up with predictions of biological events. The predictions made in this research study will be useful for the development of serum-free culture media, which is a safer and a better al...Scientists close in on missing carbon sink
...terrestrial carbon sink, scientists have turned to computer models that combine worldwide wind patterns with m...rne carbon dioxide concentrations generated by the computer models. The scientists found that most of the models significantly underestimated the airborne conce...Northern forests less effective than tropical forests in reducing global warming
...g carbon sink" in the north. To test whether the computer models were correct, Stephens and his collaborator...rne carbon dioxide concentrations generated by the computer models. They found that the models significantly underestimated the airborne concentrations of carbo...Helping chlorine-eating bacteria clean up toxic waste
...ene Network Sciences (GNS), a firm specializing in computer simulation of biochemical processes, to create computer models of the inner workings of the bacterium. The project is funded by a three-year, $381,000 grant...... Ryan helps with the field work and is our GPS"GIS computer whiz. The researchers have found things about timber rattlesnakes that are counterintuitive. Their breeding time is late summer and early fall and not the spring. While males can wander as much as a couple of miles a week, the females, after givi...