Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug
Researchers at the University of Bath have won a £261,000 grant to use the latest software to produce a blueprint of a designer drug that could stop influenza and some other diseases from replicating in humans. Professor Ian...Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers
In a step toward making living cells function as if they were tiny computers, engineers at Princeton have programmed bacteria to communicate with each other and p...Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma
More than two decades after it burst onto the scene, HIV/AIDS has claimed more than twenty million lives and continues to devastate societies around the world, particularly in Africa and other developing countries. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after years of effort AIDS researchers succeeded in developing a class of drugs that proved to be highly effective against AIDS. By blocking the acti...Using computers and DNA to count bacteria
Don't call them the Dirt Doctors, or Sultans of Soil, they're just clever Lab guys. A team from Los Alamos National Laboratory has a paper in this week's Science Magazine with a new way to count bugs in dirt. Bacteria, that is, in the highly complex world beneath our feet. "Computational Improvements Reveal Great Bacterial Diversity and High Metal Toxicity in Soil," by Jason Gans, Murray W...Computers close in on protein structure prediction
Rosetta@home lets public participate in structure prediction. The findings, which were reported in the September 16, 2005, issue of the journal Science, provide a glimmer of hope th...Calling all computers: VoIP goes mainstream
Chances are you have already received phone calls that spent part of their time on the Internet, thanks to a technology that has finally crossed into the mainstream. And if your company isnt already making use of the Internet to carry phone calls, it will probably consider doing so sooner rather tha...Businesses could bridge digital divide in Milwaukee with used computers
The , having finalized a contract with <a href="...ABC Computers receives $250,000 tax credit for expansion
ABC Computers is Wisconsin's largest provider of sourced-based accounting systems. It wi...Bill would ban computers from landfills
Miller on Tuesday said he would introduce legislation similar to that he proposed in February, 2004, but with some changes to the original proposal. He expects broad legislativ...A new tool for keeping computers cool
In fact, today's ultra-powerful computers generate so much heat that air cooling technology can't keep pace anymore, says UW-Madison professor <a href="http://www.e...Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers
e-thrombosis is the new e-jargon associated with computers. But it is no term to be happy about, because this term refers to the condition called Deep Vein Thrombosis(DVT), which could affect those individuals whose work or lifestyle demands them to spend long hours in front of a computer. Sitting for a long time without a break could cause blood clots in the unmoving lower limbs, then travel upw...Elderly People Can Take Up Computers To Fight Depression
In a research paper presented at the 113th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, researchers had said that it is possible to regulate the incidence of depression in senior citizens by helping // them use the computer to stay connected with people.The data regarding computer use and depressive symptoms was collected as part of the latest wave of an ongoing longitudinal s...Computers Can Teach Patients About Screening for Cancer
The medical body has always been receptive enough to hold on to technological advancements belived to revolutionise health care delivery. One such has been the adoption of computers to improve the quality and effectiveness of care in a cost effective way//. It has now been proved with authencity that even pateints with minimal education and no computer skills can be successfully educate...Computers in Medicine and Health Care
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