Bonn scientists simulate dinosaur digestion in the lab
This release is also available in German . Scientists from the University of Bonn are researching which plants giant dinosaurs could have lived off more than 100 million years ago. They want to find out how the dinosaurs were able to become as large as they did. In actual fact such gigant...Earlier HIV antiviral treatment can be cost effective in areas of limited resources
...information is needed today to guide treatment policies and practices. To address this need, Walensky and colleagues developed a mathematical model to simulate HIV treatment and its associated health and economic outcomes. The model calculated the additional costs of earlier treatment, its potential toxicitie...Earlier HIV Treatment Could Save Lives Worldwide
...Rochelle Walensky, of the division of infectious disease at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The researchers used mathematical modeling to simulate HIV treatment and calculate the possible health and economic outcomes. The model determined the additional costs of earlier treatment, potential toxi...Pharma-Marketer.com: One-Stop Pharmaceutical Marketing Resource
...he front lines, so that the content remains fresh, current and relevant to an evolving landscape. In a nutshell, Pharma-Marketer.com hopes to simulate that energized, post-conference feeling, new knowledge tips and insights in tow, with an all-access pass to a site full of goodies that will offer a d...Stem Cells' "Suspended" State Preserved by Key Step, Scientists Report
...echnique to silence Chd1. When they did so, embryonic stem cells could not make the full range of specialized cells. In a laboratory test used to simulate normal cell specialization, the scientists detected no differentiation of cardiac muscle, and also no formation of a tissue known as primitive endoder...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to develop petascale computer modeling capabilities
...s the spread of opinions, attitudes or social beliefs, through populations on a global scale. Current state-of-the-art agent-based computer models can simulate the spread of a disease like influenza through a population the size of the United States. Petascale modeling would make comparable agent-based studie...Nation's first children's hospital-based safety store focuses on child injury prevention
...ecently expanded, the Riley Safety Store provides space to showcase safety products for children and families, as well as offer different "zones" that simulate home settings and provide families with the opportunity to practice installation and use of child safety products prior to purchase. The Riley Saf...Artificial liver for drug tests
...y, are responsible for transforming and breaking down drugs, and endothelial cells, which act as a barrier between blood and tissue cells. In order to simulate blood and circulation, the researchers put the model into a computer-controlled bioreactor with flexible tube pump, developed by the IGB. This enables...A new computer modeling program can help hospitals prepare for the worst
...nt services to hospital surge capacity and behavioral and psychosocial characteristics to anticipate public response to an attack. It has been able to simulate the complex dynamics of emergency responses in such scenarios as a chemical release, food poisoning, and smallpox. According to the article, implem...Universite de Montreal Researchers Simulate World's Largest Heart Model Using SGI Technology
1.2TB SGI Altix Shared Memory System Runs 'Heart Model of the Future' Today, Accelerating Researchers' Time To Insight SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In the quest to discover how the mechanisms of disease work, researchers at the Universite de Montreal (UdM) h...IBM and EU Partners Create a Better Way to Fight AIDS Virus
...dictions are near 76% accurate, outperforming other commonly used HIV resistance prediction tools and also outperformed human experts in the field. To simulate real practice in HIV specialized care, the EVE (Engine versus Experts) study compared EuResist with 10 international experts confronted with 25 case h...CEL-SCI Corporation Releases Letter to Shareholders
...ed mixture of naturally derived cytokines, is the first immunotherapeutic agent in a new class of drugs called "Immune SIMULATORS". Immune SIMULATORS simulate the way our natural immune system acts in defending us against cancer. As opposed to other immunotherapies which are designed to target a single or l...CEL-SCI Expects to Take Delivery of New Manufacturing Facility on October 8, 2008
...ned mixture of naturally derived cytokines, is the first immunotherapeutic agent in a new class of drugs called "Immune SIMULATORS". Immune SIMULATORS simulate the way our natural immune system acts in defending us against cancer. As opposed to other immunotherapies which are designed to target a single or li...New Research Shows Physical Therapy as Effective as Arthroscopic Knee Surgery
... -- An exercise sequence to restore strength including a functional progression, that is, a gradual return to normal activities using exercises that simulate the knee stresses of your normal activities. A knee's tolerance for stressful activities often decreases with age and loss of conditioning. As a res...Judith Quinlan Joins Cytel as Vice President, Adaptive Trials
... markets. Cytel's East(R) system is used by biostatisticians and clinicians at hundreds of companies, throughout academia and by regulators to design, simulate and monitor group sequential and adaptive clinical trials. Cytel provides trial sponsors with innovative tools, training, and consultation to increase...Drug Combo Could Lower Diabetes Complications and Costs
...mber of diabetes-related complications and deaths in America and ultimately save money, according to a highly detailed mathematical model developed to simulate human physiology and health care systems. The Archimedes Model, originally developed by researchers at Kaiser Permanente, was used to make predict...Kimberly-Clark Patient Warming System - Thermal Pads
Description:... The Thermal pads were designed to simulate water immersion, the most effective method of transferring energy non-invasively....The Avanta Soft Skeletal Hand Implant System
Description:...tages not currently available in other finger joints. Avanta also offers a Preflex™ Finger Joint Implant - angled at 30-degress to anatomically simulate the MCP joint at rest....Models simulate nitrate dynamics in Garonne, Southwest France
MADISON, WI, DECEMBER 29, 2008 The over-enrichment of fresh, transitional, and marine waters with nitrogen (N) can lead to problems associated with eutrophication, such as a change in species composition of aquatic plants and nuisance algal blooms. In this context, dynamic models of flow and wate...Pitt receives $2.5 million to simulate and analyze brain, immune system activity
PITTSBURGHIn an effort to promote the application of mathematics to medical treatment, researchers in the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Mathematics will undertake a $2.5 million project to create models of how the brain and immune system function and change over time in response to cert...Researchers successfully simulate photosynthesis and design a better leaf
University of Illinois researchers have built a better plant, one that produces more leaves and fruit without needing extra fertilizer. The researchers accomplished the feat using a computer model that mimics the process of evolution. Theirs is the first model to simulate every step of the photosy...'Virtual Patient' to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy
With a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a physics-based virtual model that can simulate a patient's breathing in real time. When used in conjunction with existing 3-D models, adding the fourth dimension ...NYU researchers simulate molecular biological clock
For many years, DNA and proteins have been viewed as the real movers and shakers in genomic studies, with RNA seen as little more than a messenger that shuttles information between the two. But researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ha...New stem cell research could reduce number of animal experiments
...mbers of animals used in research. "There is a real need to develop alternative methods for studying these diseases that are more robust and better simulate how the disease develops in humans." The grant will fund a teaching replacement for Dr Subramanian, allowing her to focus on her research, and a re...August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights
...hanges in Earth's orbit with relation to the sun. Horton and Poulsen employ a coupled ice sheet-atmospheric general circulation model in an attempt to simulate both observed glacioeustatic changes and inferred ice sheet volumes. Their simulations present paradoxical results. While ice volumes of similar size ...UC San Diego engineer provides insights to decades-old DNA squabble
...act the most important features of DNA and the associated proteins in the model, using techniques called coarse-graining," Arya explained. "You cannot simulate something as large as a chromatin fiber containing tens of nucleosomes at molecular detail for periods of time longer than a few nanoseconds. That wil...University has grand designs to build a house of straw
...nciple researcher on the project, explained: "We're putting sensors into the walls to monitor temperature and humidity levels, and using technology to simulate the heat and moisture generated by people." Craig White, Director of White Design and ModCell said: "The Zero Carbon Housing challenge the industry...New supercomputer to reel in answers to some of Earth's problems
...tudying questions like the birth of the universe. Chinook's top job is to run NWChem, a computational chemistry program that allows researchers to simulate and predict the chemistry within and between molecules. But a wide variety of programs can run on the supercomputer. Scientists are using Chinook to t...PROTOMED SA Chooses HyperWorks to Simulate Implantable Medical Devices
TROY, Mich. and MARSEILLE, France, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, and PROTOMED SA announced today that PROTOMED SA has chosen Altair Engineer...Purdue leads center to simulate behavior of micro-electromechanical systems
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded a $17 million cooperative agreement for a research center at Purdue University's Discovery Park to develop advanced simulations for commercial and defense applications, Purdue officials announced Friday (March 7). T...UW-Madison picks scalable SGI computer to simulate weather
Rendered data from an experimental CIMSS satellite. Courtesy of UW-Madison. Madison, Wis. To model something as big as the weather, the University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies needed a bigger computer. The institute has begun testing its wea...Stem cells' 'suspended' state preserved by key step, scientists report
...technique to silence Chd1. When they did so, embryonic stem cells could not make the full range of specialized cells. In a laboratory test used to simulate normal cell specialization, the scientists detected no differentiation of cardiac muscle, and also no formation of a tissue known as primitive endoder...Microtest Laboratories is an Industry Leader in ICH Stability Testing
...oom temperatures to reproduce actual storage conditions. Accelerated stability testing occurs at higher temperatures -- up to 55 degrees Celsius -- to simulate longer spans. Microtest typically tests three conformance lots, to some target of 6, 9, 12, 18, or 24 months. Total elapsed time of all testing i...DNA Software, Inc. Honored as One of the 2009 "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch"
...b-derived, experimental results. DNA Software's tools correctly design and simulate complicated experiments on the first attempt. Customers can simulate thousands of experiments with the software before running a single experime...Physicists discover important step for making light crystals
...toms inside a light crystal -- also called an "optical lattice" -- that can simulate exotic materials and answer fundamental questions in physics. The deadli... be even simpler. Physicists hope that the light crystal will be able to simulate new materials, and perhaps even reveal the key to high-temperature supercon...Adipocyte Lipolysis Colorimetric Assay Kit from Zen-Bio, Inc.
Description:... Kit for testing the ability of a compound to simulate lipolysis in cultured human adipocytes. Kit contains controls, buffers and reagents for detecting glycerol and non-esterified free fatty acids. Academ...