News tagged with computational biologists
Berkeley Lab scientist co-leads breast cancer 'dream team'
May 27, 2009 |
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An $18 million, three-year grant to develop new and more effective therapies to fight breast cancer was awarded today to a multi-institutional "Dream Team" of scientists and clinicians that is co-led by Joe Gray, a renowned ...
Stroma genomic signature predicts resistance to anthracyclin-based chemotherapy in breast cancer
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research in Molecular Oncology in Lausanne have developed a new test to predict how breast cancer patients respond to chemotherapy, ...
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Cells are like robust computational systems
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report today in the online journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each system keeps ...
Computational Analysis Helps Researchers Understand Emerging H1N1 Flu Strain
May 03, 2009 |
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As part of a broad-based effort to understand the precise genetic make-up of H1N1 - now being referred to as “swine flu” in North America - a group of virologists and computational biologists from Columbia ...
Cancer research gets physical
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer research has traditionally been the realm of biologists, and, more recently, engineers. Now, physicists are getting in on the action.
Intrinsic changes in protein shape influence drug binding
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Computational biologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have shown that proteins have an intrinsic ability to change shape, and this is required for their biological activity. This shape-changing also ...
Biologists use computers to study bacterial cell division
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Jan 25, 2008 |
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A group of computational biologists at Virginia Tech have created a mathematical model of the process that regulates cell division in a common bacterium, confirming hypotheses, providing new insights, identifying gaps in ...
New e-science service could accelerate cancer research
Jul 01, 2009 |
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The University of Manchester and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have launched a major new e-science resource for biologists - which could accelerate research into ...
International team identifies 480 genes that control human cell division
Jan 07, 2008 |
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A team of U.S., Israeli and German scientists used computational biology techniques to discover 480 genes that play a role in human cell division and to identify more than 100 of those genes that have an abnormal pattern ...
Computation to unravel how genes are regulated and shed light on how cells become different
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Apr 10, 2008 |
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A closer alliance between computational and experimental researchers is needed to make progress towards one of biology’s most challenging goals, understanding how epigenetic marks contribute to regulation of gene expression. ...
Researchers simulate complete structure of virus–on computer
Mar 14, 2006 |
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When Boeing and Airbus developed their latest aircraft, the companies’ engineers designed and tested them on a computer long before the planes were built. Biologists are catching on. They’ve just completed ...
Natural selection may not produce the best organisms
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Jul 18, 2008 |
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"Survival of the fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit organisms around, evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether this leads to the best possible ...
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