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A New Look at Large Biomolecules
August 20, 2001
A new method for studying the electrical charges of large biological molecules may enable researchers to make a leap from modeling molecules of 50,000 atoms to those of more than a million atoms. This may make it possible to develop more effective anti-cancer drugs.
View a QuickTime movie of a “fly-through” of a microtubule
The technique, developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers… read more
A new material for 3D-printing electrodes
New resin for making electrodes uses lasers for molding into almost any 3-D shape
May 31, 2013
A new resin material that can be molded into complex, highly conductive 3-D structures with features just a few microns across has been developed by Tokyo Institute of Technology and C-MET, Inc.
Combined with state-of-the-art micro-sculpting techniques, the new resin holds promise for making customized electrodes for fuel cells or batteries, or biosensor interfaces for medical uses.
The research team, which includes physicists and chemists from Yokohama… read more
A new method for producing clean hydrogen
May 23, 2013
Duke University engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications.
While hydrogen is ubiquitous in the environment, producing and collecting molecular hydrogen for transportation and industrial uses is expensive and complicated. Just as importantly, a byproduct of most current methods of producing hydrogen is carbon monoxide, which is… read more
A New Model Army Soldier Rolls Closer to Battle
February 17, 2005
Robot soldiers will think, see and react increasingly like humans. In the beginning, they will be remote-controlled, looking and acting like lethal toy trucks. As the technology develops, they may take many shapes. And as their intelligence grows, so will their autonomy.
Robots in battle, as envisioned by their builders, may look and move like humans or hummingbirds, tractors or tanks, cockroaches or crickets. With the development of nanotechnology,… read more
A new net
February 6, 2012
Just-launched Nicira hopes to make the Internet more powerful and more secure than ever before.
Its Network Virtualization Platform software, aimed at the operators of data centers like Rackspace, blocks the programs running on the servers from interacting with the surrounding network hardware, simulating physical routers and switches.
Administrators can swiftly reprogram the virtual network to offer each application a private connection to the rest of the Internet. That… read more
A new ‘network-extracted ontology’ model of the cell
Turning vast amounts of genomic data into meaningful information about the cell is the great challenge of bioinformatics, with major implications for human biology and medicine
December 20, 2012
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues have proposed a new “network-extracted ontology” (NeXO) method that creates a computational model of the cell from large networks of gene and protein interactions, discovering how genes and proteins connect to form higher-level cellular machinery.
“Our method creates [an] ontology, or a specification of all the major players in the cell and… read more
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have uncovered important clues about a biochemical pathway in the brain that may one day expand treatment options for schizophrenia.
This research focused on key components of the brain known as NMDA receptors. These receptors are located on nerve cells in the brain and serve as biochemical gates that allow calcium ions (electrical charges) to enter the… read more
A new scheme for photonic quantum computing
October 14, 2011
“Coherent photon conversion” could potentially overcome the unresolved problems for optical implementations of quantum computing. An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at the University of Vienna (group of Anton Zeilinger) introduced this new scheme this week in Nature.
The new scheme provides a method of coherent conversion between different photon states and is… read more
A New Search Engine, Where Less Is More
November 1, 2010
Blekko, a search engine that will open to the public on Monday, aims to show search results from only useful, trustworthy sites.
Blekko’s search engine scours three billion Web pages that it considers worthwhile, but it shows only the top results on any given topic. It calls its edited lists of Web sites slashtags. The engine also tries to weed out Web pages created by … read more
A new solid-state hard drive that uses ultrasound to store more data
February 21, 2013
Electrical engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a new method, called acoustic-assisted magnetic recording, to use high-frequency sound waves to create durable solid state storage that allows for storing more data in a smaller space, using less power.
“We’re near the peak of what we can do with the technology we now use for magnetic storage,” said Pallavi Dhagat, an associate professor in the… read more
A new spin on origins of evolvability: survival of the evolvable
Diversity trumps competition
April 30, 2013
Scientists have long observed that species seem to have become increasingly capable of evolving in response to changes in the environment.
But computer science researchers now say that the popular explanation of competition to survive in nature may not actually be necessary for evolvability to increase.
In a paper published this week in open-access PLOS ONE, the researchers report that evolvability… read more
A study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers reveals new insight into why the most common, deadly kind of brain tumor in adults recurs and identifies a potential target for future therapies.
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) currently is considered incurable. Despite responding to initial therapy, the cancer almost always returns.
GBM is a fast-growing, malignant brain tumor that occurred in 15 percent of the… read more
A new tool for precise brain mapping
Optogenetic infrared light precisely illuminates neural pathways in the brain
May 21, 2013
A new tool that could help map and track the interactions between neurons in different areas of the brain is being developed by University of Texas Arlington assistant professor of physics Samarendra Mohanty.
The technology would be useful in the BRAIN (Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) mapping initiative.
This new method, which uses a fiber-optic, two-photon, optogenetic stimulator, has been used on… read more
A new tool to reveal structure of proteins
March 21, 2012
A new solid state NMR method that uses paramagnetic tags to help visualize the shape of protein molecules has been developed by Christopher Jaroniec, associate professor of chemistry at Ohio State University, and colleagues.
The new method could help researchers understand biological molecules involved in causing disease and those performing critical functions in healthy cells.
For roughly a decade, a technique called solid state nuclear magnetic resonance… read more