Genome Pioneer Wins Inventor Prize
News The Lemelson Foundation said the sequencer was central to the success of the Institute for Systems Biology's Human Genome Project, which mapped out the complete set of human genes. Hood is co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology, and has...
[April 25, 2003, 7:54]
Gates' Foundation To Fund Synthetic Biology
News The emerging field of synthetic biology -- creating organisms in the lab that act like those found in nature -- received a big boost Monday in the form of a $42.5m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
[December 14, 2004, 8:05]
International Network Services Case Study: Genomics Institute Of The Novartis Research Foundation
White Papers The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) conducts independent genetic research and develops advanced technologies ranging from cellular genomics and proteomics to combinatorial chemistry and structural biology.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Dell Precision Workstations With NVIDIA Graphics Cards Enhance Cutting-Edge Scientific Research At The University Of Maryland Institute For Advanced Computer Studies
White Papers Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies are contributing to the development of a new approach to high-performance parallel computing that uses clusters of processors and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Thinking Outside The Box About The Brain
News I've been going out and giving talks about it, but in a limited time period I was trying to present the theoretical framework and the detailed biology behind it. There's no mistaking what they study at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute.
[October 28, 2004, 14:14]
Server Cluster Based On Intel Architecture Meets Tsinghua University's Requirements
White Papers Its High Performance Computing Institute, consisting of scholars, teachers and students from a variety of fields, engage in research of various disciplines such as electric power system simulation, weather forecast, biology informatics and data...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Blue Gene Unfolds At Japan Lab
News AIST's Computational Biology Research Center will use physics simulations to investigate how genetic information encoded in DNA becomes a string of building blocks folded into the complicated three-dimensional shape of a protein.
[September 7, 2004, 9:00]
UK Supercomputing Push Gets Microsoft Backing
News He was unavailable for comment — he is attending the conference in Seattle — but a source close to the partnership said the university will also be working on computational algorithms for researching Antarctica, coastal behaviour and evolutionary...
[November 16, 2005, 9:20]
IBM Hopes To Use DNA To Build Chips
News Building a DNA scaffold is not trivial because you need the biological system to recognise something that doesn't exist at all in biology," said Cha. The work, which builds on the ground-breaking research on "DNA origami" conducted by the...
[February 20, 2008, 17:33]
Platform Accerelates And Streamlines Genomic And Biomolecular Research At European BioInformatics Institute (EBI)
White Papers EBI serves researchers in molecular biology, genetics, medicine and agriculture from academia, agricultural, biotechnology, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. To give international researchers fast and easy access to its genomic databases, the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Sensor Spectrum: Technology, Trends, And Requirements
White Papers Though physical sensing instruments have long been used in astronomy, biology, and civil engineering, the recent emergence of wireless sensor networks and RFID has spurred renaissance in sensor interest in both academia and industry.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Organic Robot Mixes Rat Brain With Silicon
News A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has created a new kind of robot, the Hybrot, which lead researcher Professor Steve Potter says has great implications for understanding the human brain.
[June 13, 2003, 16:19]
