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Open source DNA

Open source DNA

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A new mathematical tool from Dr. Eran Halperin of TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science aims to protect genetic privacy while giving genomic data to researchers.


We’ll Be Back After These Messages -- Will You?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- For at least 50 years, television advertisements have been ordered randomly within commercial breaks. But given the spread of digital video recorders (DVR) that allow users to blip-blip past the ads in fast-forward, ...


Computer model predicts brain tumor growth and evolution

Computer model predicts brain tumor growth and evolution

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Brown University and other institutions have developed a computational computer model of how brain tumors grow and evolve.


Record in the transmission of entangled photon pairs

Austrian breakthrough in quantum cryptography: Record in the transmission of entangled photon pairs (Update)

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 7

Austrian physicists say a breakthrough in next-generation quantum cryptography could allow encrypted messages to be bounced off satellites, the British journal Nature reported Sunday.





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University of Pennsylvania researchers develop formula to gauge risk of disease clusters

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 16, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a mathematical formula to assess whether concentrated disease outbreaks can be ascribed to random-chance events or, instead, suggest a contagious or environmental ...


140-year-old math problem solved by researcher

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (90) | comments 2

A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London.


Physicists saved from drowning in complexities of wetting theory

Physicists saved from drowning in complexities of wetting theory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

The relationship between a thin liquid film or drop of liquid and the shape of the surface that it wets is explained with a new simplified mathematical formula published this week in Physical Review Letters.


Mathematics simplifies sleep monitoring

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A UQ researcher has created a new way to measure breathing patterns in sleeping infants which may also work for adults.


Supplementing babies' formula with DHA boosts cognitive development

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Research has shown that children who were breast fed as infants have superior cognitive skills compared to those fed infant formula, and it's thought that this is due to an essential fatty acid in breast milk called docosahexaenoic ...


Evaluation of standard liver volume formula for Chinese adults

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been used to alleviate the shortage of available liver donors. Accurate estimation of the standard liver volume (SLV) of the living donor and recipient is crucial. Scholars of ...


Math man Atle Selberg dead at 90

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Aug 28, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Atle Selberg, a prolific mathematical researcher with multiple terms that bear his name, has died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 90.


Math man Atle Selberg dead at 90

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Aug 22, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Atle Selberg, a prolific mathematical researcher with multiple terms that bear his name, has died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 90.


Forced evolution: Can we mutate viruses to death?

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 12

It sounds like a science fiction movie: A killer contagion threatens the Earth, but scientists save the day with a designer drug that forces the virus to mutate itself out of existence. The killer disease? Still a fiction. ...


A new mathematical formula for cancer progression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Tumor progression can now be mapped less to mathematical standards and more to individual patients according to a new study by researchers at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. The study, publishing in PLoS Computational Bi ...



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