Parallel in Biological News

A genomic CluE for cloud computing

... the software required to analyze sequence data in parallel (on many computers simultaneously). This massively parallel computing allows faster gene sequence alignment and genome assembly. While parallel computing is already being used on locally ...

Quantum weirdness, parallel worlds, dinosaur poop, and the ultimate fate of the universe...

... category for their production "Multiple Worlds, parallel Universes," which aired on the CBC Radio show ... Teachers' winter meeting in Baltimore, MD. parallel UNIVERSES Jim Handman, Bob McDonald, and Pat ... The winning segment, "Multiple Worlds, parallel Universes," was Senson's brain-child. "One of the ...

Liquid crystal phases of tiny DNA molecules point up new scenario for first life on Earth

... distinct liquid crystal phases that self-orient parallel to one another and stack into columns when placed ... phases in which the chains spontaneously oriented parallel to each other, he said. Researchers understand ... result of DNAs elongated molecular shape, making parallel alignment easier, much like spaghetti thrown in a ...

Mollusks taste memories to build shells

... into three basic classes: stripes perpendicular to the growing edge, bands parallel to the growing edge, and complex patterns created by asymmetric "traveling ... the inhibition area remains the same as the shell's edge grows. Bands parallel to the growing edge can be explained by inhibition of future activity. ...

New holographic method could be used for lab-on-a-chip technologies

... Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. The experimental device consists of two parallel electrodes made of indium tin oxide, a transparent and electrically conductive material. The parallel plates were spaced 50 micrometers, or millionths of a meter, apart, ...

Nanodiamond drug device could transform cancer treatment

... or even thousands, of devices potentially could be manufactured in parallel and at low cost," said Ho. "The nanodiamonds are quite economical and ... side effects. Because of the proven biocompatibility and massively parallel deposition capabilities of parylene, the researchers are engaged with ...

New electrostatic-based DNA microarray technique could revolutionize medical diagnostics

... for interrogation in a single experiment. "We have demonstrated parallel sampling of a microarray surface with micron-scale resolutions over ... mutations and pathogens. "Our technique is essentially a millionfold parallel version of the classic experiment used by Robert Millikan almost 100 years ...

The 21st century tomato

... complex networks and pathways in which they regulate and are regulated by parallel networks of genes. It is not possible to realistically model these ... metabolites, enzymes, and genes must be analyzed simultaneously and in parallel in order to capture their dynamic relationships. To accomplish this, ...

Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously

... probe can move independently. One application of such an array is fast parallel measurements of forces between biological molecules. In collaboration ... and down a thousand times, we have developed a membrane that would allow parallel measurements of molecules to get thousands of measurements at one time, ...

1 in 6 health workers won't report in flu pandemic -- study by Ben-Gurion U. researchers

... likely to say they "would respond" compared to those in the "low threat/low efficacy" group. The survey analysis was based on Witte's Extended parallel Process Model (EPPM), used for understanding adaptive behavior in the face of unknown risk. It examines the relative influences of perceived threat ...

Earliest animals lived in a lake environment, research shows

... aspect unique to lake environments. Furthermore, because lakes are of limited size and not connected to each other, there may have been significant parallel evolution of organisms. Now we must wait and see if similar fossils are found in marine sediments." ...

Common allergy drug reduces obesity and diabetes in mice

... and mice. Their numbers were inversely correlated with the numbers of a class of inflammatory immune cells, macrophages, in a sense creating parallel universes of fat. While obese and diabetic fat tissue was full of inflammatory macrophages and nearly absent of Tregs, normal-weight fat tissue was ...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

... Kernel - This technology leverages hardware capabilities of multicore processors to deliver significant improvements in data access performance for parallel computing applications. CNW provides enhanced data access capabilities beyond other equivalent operating systems by employing a new technique that ...

Ferns took to the trees and thrived

... includes epiphytes. This fall, as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Schuettpelz will begin to look for parallel patterns of diversification in epiphytic flowering plants like bromeliads and orchids. ...

Natural-born divers and the molecular traces of evolution

... solubility in general", explains Dr.Berenbrink. "It will also allow the analysis of natural selection on protein structure/function in multiple parallel cases in which a high muscle myogobin content evolved, such as in divers but also in burrowing animals that normally experience hypoxia". ...

How mitochondria get their membranes bent

... the number of cristae junctions goes up. Without the protein, however, crista junctions are lacking and the inner cristae membrane forms internal parallel stacks of vesicles. On the other hand, the researchers found that regular assemblies (supercomplexes) of the F1FO-ATPase, a protein complex ...

Shape matters in the case of cobalt nanoparticles

... form chainslining up as a string of microscopic magnets. Then, when placed in an external magnetic field, the individual chains bundle together in parallel lines to form thick columns aligned with the field. These induced columns, says NIST physicist Angela Hight Walker, imply that the external magnetic ...

Discovery raises new doubts about dinosaur-bird links

... understand a basic aspect of bird biology," said John Ruben, an OSU professor of zoology. "This discovery probably means that birds evolved on a parallel path alongside dinosaurs, starting that process before most dinosaur species even existed." These studies were just published in The Journal of ...

Equity concerns raised by congestion pricing can be addressed to make approach viable

... congestion pricing in the United States, tend to raise fewer equity concerns since drivers have a choice of either using a set of toll lanes or using parallel free lanes. Although drivers with higher incomes tend to use the tolled lanes more, studies have not shown that lower-income drivers are left worse ...

Spring agricultural fires have large impact on melting Arctic

... findings on agricultural burning and transport to the Arctic will be officially released. "Targeting these emissions offers a supplemental and parallel strategy to carbon dioxide reductions, with the advantage of a much faster temperature response, and the benefit of health risk reductions," says ...

A biological basis for the 8-hour workday?

... "but the fact that we can see them reliably means to me there is the possibility that there could be a biological basis to an 8-hour cycle." parallel experiments using RNA samples from synchronized tissue culture cells uncovered only genes that cycled on a 24-hour rhythm and showed no evidence of ...

Learning how the pieces responsible for interpreting the human genome work

... will allow us to understand how many diseases develop, particularly cancer". The technology that speeded up sequencing To study the parallel activity of so many proteins through the genome, scientists require advanced modelling tools. These tools are associated with systems biology, which ...

Fossils suggest earlier land-water transition of tetrapod

... was in transition from water to land. "It seems like there were different species evolving the same or similar traits independently -- evidence of parallel evolution," Callier said. "The terrestrial environment posed new challenges like feeding and moving on land and breathing air, to which the first ...

Male impotence drugs may deserve a second look in women

... Orleans April 18-22 as part of the Experimental Biology 2009 scientific conference. Although there was talk years ago of a pink pill for women to parallel the blue Viagra for men, early clinical trials found essentially no response in women. MCG researchers decided to look again, first giving a drug ...

New insights into progressive hearing loss

... In parallel studies in human and mouse, two groups of researchers have come to the same conclusion: that a new kind of gene is associated with progressive ...

Collaboration leads to success: Most powerful computer of its kind in western N.Y. available worldwide

... The Miller Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory (MCIL) was founded at the beginning of the 21st century by Miller who is widely recognized as a leader in parallel computing, grid computing, and cyberinfrastructure. Miller served as Founding Director of the UB Center for Computational Research (CCR) from ...

Astronauts may need more intense workouts to maintain muscle fitness in space

... exploration." Trappe and the HPL team have been conducting NASA-funded, ground-based bed rest studies of long duration between 60 and 90 days parallel to their ISS research. Trappe said, "From our bed rest studies, we found that when high-intensity resistance and aerobic exercise are balanced ...

Beverage consumption a bigger factor in weight

... 37 percent sugar-sweetened beverages were the leading source of liquid calories. Consumption of liquid calories from beverages has increased in parallel with the obesity epidemic. Earlier studies by Bloomberg School researchers project that 75 percent of U.S. adults could be overweight or obese by ...

Cancer Genomics Browser gives cancer researchers a powerful new tool

... the human genome, the UCSC Genome Browser now averages one million page requests every week. It displays data and annotations in linear tracks that parallel the DNA sequences of the dozens of genomes in the browser. But this type of display doesn't work well with clinical data from large numbers of ...

Inhaling a heart attack: How air pollution can cause heart disease

... including: ozone nitrates sulfates metals aldehydes One intriguing statistic is that the risk of heart attack increases in parallel with time spent in traffic the previous day. In animal experiments, Dr. Bhatnagar has found that aldehydes -- a toxic class of chemicals found in ...

Ten genes identified in connection with sudden cardiac death

... changes in risk, Abecasis said. Scientists studied DNA and electrocardiograms for 15,000 people, and contrasted their findings with those of a parallel study of similar size led by Chris Newton Cheh of the Broad Institute. ...

Elephant shark genome sequence leads to discovery of color perception in deep-sea fish

... shark had the potential for color vision like humans. The discovery shows that it has acquired the traits for color vision during evolution in parallel with humans," said Byrappa Venkatesh, Ph.D., who with David Hunt, Ph.D., headed the research team responsible for this surprising discovery. Dr. ...

New aerosol observing technique turns gray skies to blue

... from more than 100 angles, enabling more complete characterization of aerosols by robust mathematical models. RSP and the soon-to-be-launched APS use parallel optical paths to collect measurements from all wavelengths and polarizations simultaneously. This approach to monitoring the continuously changing ...

Turning sunlight into liquid fuels

... 1,000 Watts per square meter)." Frei and Jiao used mesoporous silica as their scaffold, growing their cobalt nanocrystals within the naturally parallel nanoscale channels of the silica via a technique known as "wet impregnation." The best performers were rod-shaped crystals measuring 8 nanometers in ...

Enhanced quality of 'LIFE' through Nordic food

... behaviour, food economics and sustainability will be investigated. The project consists of work packages (WPs) that are organised in an integrated, parallel and stepwise fashion so that the outcome of each of the WPs can be used for the ongoing and subsequent WPs. You can read more about the work packages ...

Crafty Australian crayfish cheat

... crayfish claw strength, Frank Seebacher of the University of Sydney, Australia, helped Wilson design a custom-made apparatus consisting of two thin parallel beams with external force transducers. Luckily, it wasn't too tricky to entice the animals to clamp down on the contraption. Crayfish are 'very ...

Cells with double vision

... receives its visual information from only a narrow vertical strip of the fly's eye - the cell's "receptive field". Since the VS-cells are arranged parallel to each other, the fly's field of vision is completely covered by the vertical strips of the ten cells on each side of the fly's brain (the figure ...

Singapore-US scientists first to develop revolutionary microchip that uses 30 times less energy

... Professor Palem. The team hopes PCMOS technology will enter the consumer computing market in as little as four years and may present itself as a parallel to mainstream CMOS technology in the near future. ...

Rot's unique wood degrading machinery to be harnessed for better biofuels production

... is the ease by which they can be deconstructed. Traditionally, harsh chemicals and expensive high-heat treatments have been employed. In parallel with the development of improved feedstocks is finding just the right mix of enzymes to get the most out of converting biomass into fuel. "Nature ...

New open-source software permits faster desktop computer simulations of molecular motion

... will see a jump in productivity and resourcefulness from computers they already own." With OpenMM, researchers can use GPUs to perform massively parallel calculations. OpenMM fits squarely with Simbios' mission of providing computational tools to stimulate research in biology and medicine, according ...