POSTS TAGGED AS computational biology

Artificial Intelligence for Wellness

Human Microbiome
The interaction of some three billion bacterial genes and twenty thousand human genes in the human microbiome is the [MORE]

DNA Robots

LQian Cargo Sorting DNA Robot
In the 64 years that scientists have known about the structure of DNA, enormous knowledge has [MORE]

Cell Census

T Cells
Big science projects like the Human Genome, the Human Proteome and the Human Brain Atlas, have certain technologies in [MORE]

Mind-Reading Machine

Brain Activation Patterns Identify Thoughts
Here’s a conundrum to consider: does a comatose person have a privacy right to their thoughts? [MORE]

Automated Analysis of MRI Images

Raw Data Collected from dGEMRIC MRI Protocol
It’s not uncommon for a woman to get an MRI for breast cancer and [MORE]

Automated Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Since Hippocrates’ time, medicine has depended on “feature sets” (i.e. symptoms patients presented) to give a physician some degree [MORE]

Computer Assisted Design for Nano Drug Delivery

Computer Model UPenn
Cell surfaces “flutter” to thermal fluxuations, according to researchers in this piece. And, that undulation influences how well [MORE]

“Target Finder” for Non-Coding DNA

Enhancer Nucleotide Sequence
Geneticists haven’t called non-coding DNA “junk” for a long time, but it still passes through medical reporting like [MORE]

Optical Data Transfer at 1.124 Terabytes Per Second

Comcast cable subscribers supposedly receive internet transmission speeds of between 105 and 150 mbps (i.e. megabites/second). Verizon Fios has the [MORE]

Testing-Robot for Drug-Protein Interactions

While molecular diagnostics lead the way in “patient discovery,” drug discovery proceeds with predicting interactions between drugs and their protein [MORE]

New Platform for Cancer Epigenetic Profiling

Epigenetics
Biostatisticians at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Harvard University have collaborated to create a new “co-expression” analysis of cancer, on [MORE]

IBM’s Neuro-Synaptic Chip

Neuron Chip
Most computer chips process instructions in a series, while human neurons do the same in massive parallel.  IBM now [MORE]

Chips for Brains: Neuromorphic Engineering

Neuromorphic Chips
Swiss engineers realize that to build a machine which has the capability of the human brain, their design [MORE]

Statistical Genomics

Andrea S. Foulkes ScD
Epigenetic diseases may actually be complexes of monogenetic disorders; consequently, studies of rare diseases could [MORE]