Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu
...ontribute its natural compound database for use in virtual screening for new inhibitors and drug discovery. CNIC will also become the central repository for the projects research data. The database will be distributed through the computational data grid, and accessible through web portals mirrored at par...MIT's ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests
... have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed"...cal characteristics of the oceans, but adds to the virtual soup about 100 random types of phytoplankton. The model randomly generates the single-celled plants,...FSU leads botanical research into 21st century: Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project
...in MorphBank, researchers will be able to take out virtual loans of 10,000 or more East Gulf Coastal Plain specimens from five or more institutions concurrently -- all with a few mouse clicks. With our leadership of the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project and contributions to other major Web initiati...Oncolytics Biotech Inc., research collaborators demonstrate reovirus/gemcitabine
...study in clinical trials. "It is rare to see the virtual elimination of tumours as well as the long-lasting therapeutic effect that we have observed from this study," said Dr. Brad Thompson, President and CEO of Oncolytics. "We are very encouraged by these results and look forward to testing this particul...K-State to collaborate on research to forecast ecological consequences of environmental changes
...l change in the Kansas River Basin and establish a virtual ecological forecasting center in Kansas. "We have a world-class group of ecological researchers here," said Walter Dodds, professor of biology, who leads the research for K-State. "We're also very open to collaboration at K-State. This project play...New research advances energy efficiency, safety and performance of public transit
... a problem. The system also utilizes a Web based, virtual common operational picture to allow managers to view bus health and location, in real time, from a remote location. A previous version of CIMS' technology, incorporated into the U.S. Marine Corps' Light Armored Vehicle, won the National Center for ...'Virtual Patient' to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy
...lytechnic Institute are developing a physics-based virtual model that can simulate a patient's breathing in r...p the 4-D Visible Photographic Man (VIP-Man). This virtual model is an extension of Xu's ongoing project involving the 3-D VIP-Man, which is an advanced comput...Pendulum love, science class gender gaps, musical mind mirrors, and unparticle physics
... fights dragons and raids strongholds? Creating a virtual pendulum that you can sync up to your real-life pe...he feat by connecting a real world pendulum with a virtual version that moved under time-tested equations of motion. To get the two pendulums to communicate, ...DOE Joint Genome Institute secures long-term lease on production genomics facility
...rship for at least the next decade. Founded as a virtual institute in 1997, DOE JGI opened the doors of the Production Genomics Facility in its present location in 1999. The first phase of the new lease will extend though 2013 with the option to run until 2018. The current DOE JGI staff of 240 University...Getting to the root of plant growth
...curs below ground level scientists will develop a virtual root using the latest mathematical modelling techn...nd Manufacturing Engineering. They will create a virtual root of the simple weed Arabidopsis, a species of the Brassica family routinely used for molecular g...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
...mbers. High fishing pressure preceded the species virtual disappearance from the area and apparently played a key role but other factors under study might have compounded the fisherys demise the catch of juvenile tuna in subsequent years, for example. As well, its important to note that fishers from many ...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
... The Access Grid is designed to provide a natural virtual environment, where users can see and hear one another, projected on a large display wall. More than just videoconferencing, the Access Grid enables participants to share and interact with files and applications. The open nature of the Access Grid s...