InfoSNM highlights advances in computer, information sciences for molecular imaging
...ill increase in years to come. InfoSNM will offer computer demonstrations by vendors, computer classrooms used for commercial presentations and general computer education, and computer-based pres...New Brandeis research sheds light on memory by erasing it
...that are necessary for a memory molecule. Like a computer whose electronics change with the addition of new information, molecular activity in the hippocampus, where memory is stored in the brain, changes as memory is being stored. In this study, Lisman and his colleagues showed that they could saturate the...New technique will produce a better chromosome map
...chromosomes. With so many crisp images to analyze, computer algorithms can accurately calculate the number, sh... graduate research assistant Mert Dikmen, who uses computer vision technologies under the supervision of Beckman Institute professor Thomas Huang to analyze the...Scientists offer new view of photosynthesis
... and then try to match these findings with current computer models of protein movement. ...... (1m is one millionth of a meter). Although, as in computer chips, this miniaturization economizes on space and energy, it increases the noise introduced by thermodynamic fluctuations in a neuron's voltage-gated ion channels. Axons use action potential (AP) to transmit information fast and reliably to synapse...Essential genes cluster clue to order in the genome
...sential genes," said Justice. With the aid of a computer program developed by Dr. Bin Liu at Baylor College of Medicine, the researchers analyzed this region across species as diverse as possum, cow, dog and chimp. "We found it was highly conserved across species," she said. "The reason this part of t......re its properties." Ndlec and his group combined computer simulations with microscopy studies to test the pr...rior to give more net force in that direction. But computer simulations show that the concept of force generators that translate the dynamic behaviour of microt......opular compositions. They are currently piloting a computer program, written by a collaborator Frank Pettit, w...es. Further examples of converted proteins and the computer program are accessible for online use [ www.mimg.ucla.edu/faculty/miller_jh/gene2music/home.html ]. ...72 new members chosen by academy
...vid D.; professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering, department of physics, University of California, Santa Barbara BAKER, Tania A.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and E.C. Whitehead Professor Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge BAWENDI, Moungi G....Arctic ice retreating more quickly than computer models project
...ster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new study concludes. The research, by sc...ating more rapidly than estimated by any of the 18 computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in preparing its 2007 assessment...Researchers create interactive map with Google technology to track avian flu spread
...m. A click by users on viral "isolates" generates computer windows revealing diagnostic mutations that make e...ch strain unique, and the information is linked by computer to the National Institutes of Health's GenBank, a database containing more than 75 million sequence ...BCM, Rice make major advance in structural biology
...ut on special goggles that allow them to look at a computer and see 3-D representations of both the map and the protein. They grab hold of the protein and twist it to fit within the mapped area, but in so doing they may inadvertently move a different part of the protein out of alignment somewhere else. The pr...Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
...s. Eisenbergs research team used a sophisticated computer algorithm to analyze proteins known to be associat..., a senior research scientist, found that when the computer algorithm says a protein will form an amyloid fibril, the protein almost always does. While the mo...Double honor recognises world-class science and spin-out success
...lds of engineering, pharmaceuticals, food science, computer science, agriculture and the environment. Last year The University of Nottingham won a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade in recognition of its pioneering campuses in China and Malaysia, and worldwide internationa...Minuscule molecules pack a powerful punch
...ences of the human and mouse genomes, the power of computer analysis and microarray work and exemplifies why whole-organism research can bring understanding that cannot be developed in any other way." The study emphasizes the value of the ES cell based knockout technology, currently being pursued on a large...Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck
...omplex and cellulose at the molecular level -- the computer model showed us how the binding portion of this enzyme changes shape, which hadn't been anticipated by the scientific community," said first author Mark Nimlos, a Senior Scientist at NREL. "These results are important because they can provide crucial...Stem cell identity in culture may strongly depend on the cellular microenvironment
...ort, on the basis of experimental observations and computer simulations, that the stem cell identity in culture may strongly depend on the cellular microenvironment. These observations are in line with the currently emerging view that differentiation is context dependent rather than a pre-programmed attrib...'Junk' DNA now looks like powerful regulator, Stanford researcher finds
...ssistant professor of developmental biology and of computer science at Stanford, found more than 10,000 nearly identical genetic snippets dotting the human chromosomes. Many of those snippets were located in gene-free chromosomal expanses once described by geneticists as "gene deserts." These sections are, in...Study links faulty DNA repair to Huntington's disease onset
...a technician came to repair a minor defect in your computer but was called away by a more urgent problem midway through the process. Now your computer is lying in pieces and youre unable to use it," said McMurray. The study suggests that OGG1 might ...Scientists track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, climate change
...global warming. PACDEX will help scientists refine computer models of greenhouse gas emissions and improve forecasts of future climate change, both for the entire globe and for specific regions that are especially affected by dust and pollutants. "PACDEX will open a window into what happens to the atmospher...