News tagged with biological computer
Biomedical engineers teach bacteria to count
May 28, 2009 |
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Biomedical engineers at Boston University have taught bacteria how to count. Professor James J. Collins and colleagues have wired a new sequence of genes that allow the microbes to count discrete events, opening the door ...
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Do-it-yourself biology: Learning to build a better microbe
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Building a cell from scratch is a lot more complicated than building a computer. But that's just what synthetic biologists, including many at MIT, are trying to figure out how to do.
Computers aid in cracking deception in plants
Jun 25, 2009 |
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If the growing presence of computer 'geeks' on television crime shows is any indicator, computers are increasingly becoming essential tools for detecting and combating skullduggery. However, television detectives ...
Study Links Photosynthesis Genes to Marine Virus Fitness
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent Northeastern University study has shown, for the first time, the effect of individual genes on the fitness of a marine species at the ecosystem level. Using his innovative computer simulation model, ...
DNA computation gets logical
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Biomolecular computers, made of DNA and other biological molecules, only exist today in a few specialized labs, remote from the regular computer user. Nonetheless, Tom Ran and Shai Kaplan, research students in the lab of ...
'Silver nanoparticle' microscope may shed new light on cancer, bone diseases
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 26, 2009 |
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In a finding that could help speed the understanding of diseases ranging from cancer to osteoporosis, researchers in Utah are reporting development of a new microscope technique that uses “silver nanoparticle” mirrors to ...
Multi-teraflop computer system targets large-scale discovery projects
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Penn State's Institute for CyberScience will target large-scale modeling, simulation and data analysis with a terascale advanced computing system, funded by the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation ...
In race to predict protein structure, computers take lead
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 15, 2009 |
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A flood of data is emerging from genome research, including sequence data on proteins. To help science keep pace with this flow of knowledge, computer scientists, biophysicists and biochemists across the world have been developing ...
Water droplets shape graphene nanostructures
Dec 17, 2009 |
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A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desired shapes.
Software improves p2p privacy by hiding in the crowd
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new "guilt-by-association" threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper ...
Method for computing evolutionary trees could revolutionize evolutionary biology
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Detailed, accurate evolutionary trees that reveal the relatedness of living things can now be determined much faster and for thousands of species with a computing method developed by computer scientists and a biologist at ...
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