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- Supercomputers fight against bird flu
- A worldwide outbreak of avian or 'bird flu' is still not excluded and health officials recognize that new drugs are needed since new strains of the virus appear everyday. Now, U.S. scientists are using supercomputers to find new drugs to fight the virus and to stay ahead of these mutations....
- Tags: Protein, Compound, Supercomputer, Bird Flu, Scientist, Potential Candidate Drug, Team Management, Cyberthreats, Security, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- The diabetes epidemic just gets worse
- The diabetes epidemic just gets worseshould we?Well, they force compliance on us on a number of other health issues. We are prohibited from injesting a wide variety of substances in the name of health. As far "should they" goes, I won't comment. But why they are or arn't, I'm almost...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Food & Beverage, Carbohydrate, epidemic, protein, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart disease
- What makes GSMs so promising is that, while statins may stop plaque from forming they do nothing about plaque which is there, while with the new drugs "GSM agents actually stick to the Abeta already in the brain, keeping it from aggregating." by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Protein, GSM, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Protein+nanotech+in+next+gen+storage
- Protein+nanotech+in+next+gen+storageviruses?Perhaps too far in advance for any testing, but I wonder if this places a new spin on the term "computer virus". Imagine somehow "infecting" a hard drive with a pathogen which feeds on proteins. Your machine would no longer need to be turned on to be destroyed. Plus, the...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, SECURITY, protein, storage, media, attack, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Protein nanotech in next gen storage
- The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will allow 10 TB 2.5" disks in a few years. But then what? Optical protein-based recording could be the answer. Scientists at a Osaka University lab have demonstrated...
- Tags: Disk, Protein, Nanotechnology, Protein Storage, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Recreating 3.5 billion year-old genes
- A U.S. team of scientists wanted to determine what was the Earth's temperature several billions years ago. But because most of the team was composed of biologists, the researchers took an unusual approach. Instead of analyzing rock formations or measuring isotopes in fossils, they've 'resurrected' a variety of genes and...
- Tags: Earth, Protein, Environment, Gene, Opposite, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- The diabetes trial failure
- The "failure" of a major diabetes study has reporters and their sources wringing their hands. This should not be. (The picture is from the WebMD's doctors' site, medicinenet.) Science often makes wrong turns, especially when it's applied in the form of engineering or products....
- Tags: Protein, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- 3-D pictures of a cancer-promoting enzyme
- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have built a 3-D picture of an enzyme which can promote many types of cancers after mutation. This enzyme, known as PIK3CA, "is mutated frequently in many cancers, including colon, brain, stomach, breast and lung." According to the researchers, the new details discovered about the enzyme...
- Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Cancer, PI3K, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- Advanced Pathway Painter (exe)
- Advanced Pathway Painter is free tool that helps you visualize pathways. The user has the possibility to display any kind of quantitative data from gene and protein experiments directly within the pathways colors represent the value. The linking between the pathway items and the experiment data is done over the...
- Tags: Protein, U.S. General Services Administration, Gene, Advanced Pathway Painter, User, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-12-27
- Predicting drug side effects
- It would certainly be nice for the pharmaceutical industry to identify potential side effects of a drug before it starts to be tested on humans. Now, a research team at the University of California, San Diego UCSD might have found a solution. They have developed a new computational technique to...
- Tags: Technology Review, Protein, Drug, Molecule, UCSD, Philip Bourne, Tamoxifen, Team Management, Productivity, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- NuCalc (exe)
- For people on a diet, or looking to lose weight fast. NuCalc calculates your daily nutrient and calorie requirements based on your current weight, sex and activity level. Shows the amounts of protein, carbohydrate and fat you need, and the percentage of calories from
- Tags: Protein, NuCalc
- Software downloads 2007-12-11
- Nanorobots for drug delivery?
- The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new check this story for example. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a software...
- Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Environment, Cone, Sensor, Nanorobot, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-08
- A supercomputer to design better plants?
- Is it possible to create more productive crops than nature does without growing hybrids or genetically modified plants? According to researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC, the answer is yes . They've simulated photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light to energy, with the help of supercomputers...
- Tags: Researcher, Protein, Supercomputer, Gene, Plant, Computer, UIUC, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- 800,000 computers to fight cancer
- Canadian researchers have started the "Help Conquer Cancer" initiative. They hope to accelerate their research by using the computers of 330,000 people who volunteered to give their idle computer time to the "World Community Grid," the largest public humanitarian grid, a project sponsored by IBM. In fact, they hope to...
- Tags: Team, Researcher, Protein, Computer, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- PS3 gamers are real world heroes
- Quick, are gamers socially impaired, violence prone losers or technically hip, socially conscious good guys? The numbers don't lie: Sony Playstation3 participation is 30x that of Windows machines in Stanford's disease fighting Folding@home project. And PS3s provide 80% of the TFLOPS this project uses. ...
- Tags: DNA, Protein, Sony PlayStation 3, Gamer, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- The genetic secrets of the black widow spider
- Biologists at the University of California at Riverside UCR have identified the genes for two key proteins in the 'dragline silk' of the black widow spider. This silk, one of the seven different silks that an individual spider produces, is used by spiders as the structural foundation of their webs....
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- MB DNA Analysis (exe)
- MB is a free multi-functional DNA/protein analysis program. Its main advantage is that it combines all of the most widely used features needed for an advanced molecular analysis of genomic/proteomic data. Features of MB are a fast restriction analysis algorithm, promoter analysis, calculation of molecular weights and chemical properties of...
- Tags: DNA, Protein, Analysis
- Software downloads 2007-05-24
- The music of proteins
- Im always bluffed by the imagination of scientists. Microbiologists from the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA have converted DNA sequences of human proteins into music, so you can listen to the sound of proteins. One of the researchers, who is both a microbiologist and a skilled pianist, found...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Filming proteins in action
- French researchers have produced a film of proteins at work by freezing them in different states. They made a movie of an enzyme called "superoxide reductase" which is found in bacteria. This enzyme is a protein that catalyses chemical reactions and needs to eliminate some toxic molecules in order to...
- Tags: Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
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