Educators in Georgia and Maryland earn top 2006 Mentoring Awards from AAAS
...yland and the head of the school of electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology...o have received doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering. Ten of them are women. 2006 AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement Nearly 40...Super-thin membrane, 50 atoms thick, sorts individual molecules
...b of Philippe Fauchet, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University, Striemer discovered the membrane as he was looking for a way to better understand how silicon crystallizes when heated. He used such a thin piece of silicononly about 50 atoms thickbecause it would allow him to use an...New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown
...loped protein-scanning chip and a uniquely capable computer database to examine the activation and deactivatio...ays analysis program, which draws on a large-scale computer database of biochemical interactions that have been described in a wide variety of peer-reviewed sci...National Academies sessions at AAAS 2007 annual meeting, Feb. 16-19
...fields, including chemistry, engineering, and even computer science. Ann Reid, senior program officer at the National Research Council's Board on Life Sciences, organized and will moderate this session. ...Free public events at the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
...es worldwide. The son of Michigan State University computer science professor Carl Victor Page, Larrys love of... out of Lego bricks. While in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry met Sergey Brin and together they developed and ran Google, wh...Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove
...chniques typically reserved for the manufacture of computer chips, the Wisconsin team fabricated a mold for making a rubber template with slits narrow enough to confine single strands of elongated DNA. The new technique is akin to threading a microscopic needle with a thread of DNA, explains Juan de Pablo, ...New medications, cancer diagnosis goals of UH engineers with $1M in grants
...ri Litvinov, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and of chemical and biomolecular engin...ences, and John Wolfe, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Litvinov and his team received more than $1 million in grants from the National Institu...Prehistoric origins of stomach ulcers uncovered
... scientists combined their genetic analysis with a computer simulation the modelled the spread of the bacteria across the globe. This showed that it migrated from Eastern Africa at almost exactly the same time as early humans, approximately 60,000 years ago. The UK research effort was led by Dr Francois Ba...Loss of a universal tRNA feature reported
...The researchers used bioinformatic tools such as a computer script specifically written by the group to probe the tRNA genes in the alphaproteobacteria group. Examination of the corrected tRNAHis sequences revealed that a group of alphaproteobacteria fails to encode a G (guanylate) at the -1 position of the...Cold storage solution for global warming?
...r oceans. By employing geophysical techniques and computer modelling, Ms Camps has identified a number of sites in Western Europe with the potential to store carbon dioxide by this method. She is also exploring further implications of her research that may benefit geologists' understanding of the stability...Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system
...nee and back injuries; driving innovations in computer graphics and scientific visualization. The proj...searchers. They include bioengineer Joseph Crisco, computer scientist David Laidlaw, orthopedic experts Braden Fleming and Douglas Moore, and biologists Stephen...Satellite data vital to UN climate findings
...ded as a summary for policymakers, are based on 19 computer models. Many scientists and policy makers agree climate change is the biggest problem facing the planet today. A better understanding of global-warming phenomena requires sophisticated models of the Earth System including the atmosphere, ocean, biosp...Cutting-edge projects awarded computing time on Blue Gene/L
...n awarded large amounts of time on IBM Blue Gene/L computer systems at the U. S. Department of Energy's Argonn...tson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The computer time is available to researchers through the Department of Energy's INCITE program -- Innovative and...How does your brain tell time?
... network to encode time." The UCLA team used a computer model to test this theory. By simulating a network of interconnected brain cells in which each connection changed over time in response to stimuli, they were able to show that the network could tell time. Their simulations indicated that a specifi...Noise echoes in cell communications
...echnology. Dawei Hong, an assistant professor of computer science, Joseph Martin, a professor of biology, an...y, this collaborative research between biology and computer science faculty at Rutgers-Camden is part of a thrust to ultimately offer a doctoral program in comp...NJIT awarded $1.1M NSF grant to change way inner-city students learn
...nteraction with technology may be using a personal computer for word processing and other non-technical tasks. Without opportunities, too many of our urban students do not develop the interest and skills to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. These are emerging careers and re...Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine
...er a new approach to sequencing." Much like the computer industry, DNA sequencing technology is driven by the mantra of faster, cheaper and more reliable. In the past generation, sequencing costs have fallen 100-fold, from roughly a dollar a DNA base to a penny, but are still far out of reach for the publi...Virginia Tech's System X supercomputer provides super tool for simulation of cell division
Blacksburg, Va. -- Virginia Tech researchers in computer science and biology have used the university's sup...om Tulsa, Okla., received his master of science in computer science in May 2006 and is currently working as a programmer in Germantown, Md. Watson, of Blacksbur...FSU anthropologist confirms 'Hobbit' indeed a separate species
...ated a "virtual endocast" from a three-dimensional computer model of the Hobbit's braincase, which reproduces the surface of the brain including its shape, grooves, vessels and sinuses. The endocasts revealed large parts of the frontal lobe and other anatomical features consistent with higher cognitive proces...NIH study finds MRI more sensitive than CT in diagnosing most common form of acute stroke
...gh the body at different angles and processed by a computer as cross-sectional images, or slices of the internal structure of the body or organ. Standard MRI uses computer-generated radio waves and a powerful magnet to produce detailed slices or three-dimensional images of body structures and nerves. A cont...