POSTS TAGGED AS computational biology

Computational Medicine Perspective

In 2005, The Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering and its School of Medicine began a collaboration called [MORE]

“Brain Reading”

Brain Research
This piece describes research at UCLA’s Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging aimed at understanding and treating smoking addiction.  Investigators [MORE]

Moore’s Law in Your Ear

Spund Wave
Hearing aids are computers that you stick in your ear, and consequently, they reflect the computational features of [MORE]

A “Virtual” Lab Rat

Daniel Beard, PhD
Like humans, rats can present hypertension, and the causes are highly complex in both species.  To begin [MORE]

IBM’s Cognitive Computers

Brain Inside Skeleton
Imagine a network of sensors that captures data about a person’s vital signs, mobility, emotions, environment, financial [MORE]

University of Buffalo Institute for Healthcare Informatics

With a $15m contribution in computer equipment from Dell and $20m from the New York State Health Department, the [MORE]

IBM’s World Initiative on Health IT

IBM recently committed $100m to several initiatives over the next three years that focus on systems integration, services research, [MORE]

Roche and IBM Nanopore Sequencing Genomes for $1000 or Less

Roche is picking up on IBM’s development of nanopore sequencing, which streams DNA through a nanopore of a silicon [MORE]

Digital Embryos

Digital Embryo

Using novel lighting means, embryologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany) were able to take [MORE]

A Really Smart Biosensor Chip

Protein scientists in Germany and Japan have developed a new biochip that can detect proteins for specific diseases and [MORE]

Supercomputing Human Diseases

Medical researchers and physicians at the University of Melbourne (state of Victoria) and IBM’s Research Computational Biology group in [MORE]

Technological Tour d’ Force

The US Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Center, at Ft. Dietrich, MD, carries out R&D projects in medical robotics, imaging, [MORE]