News tagged with computational method


Expert discusses how BRAIN Initiative will affect neuroscience

Mapping the human brain, with its billions of neurons, is one of science's most elusive projects. But a new federal program—the $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative ...

Neuroscience created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study offers new way to discover HIV vaccine targets

Decades of research and three large-scale clinical trials have so far failed to yield an effective HIV vaccine, in large part because the virus evolves so rapidly that it can evade any vaccine-induced immune response.

HIV & AIDS created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Type 1 diabetes testing may be cheaper, faster

Work by researchers at The University of Western Australia could revolutionise testing for Type 1 diabetes around the world.

Diabetes created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New tool in the fight against tropical diseases

A novel tool exploits baker's yeast to expedite the development of new drugs to fight multiple tropical diseases, including malaria, schistosomiasis, and African sleeping sickness. The unique screening method uses yeasts ...

Medical research created Feb 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New target for treating wide spectrum of cancers

(Medical Xpress)—UC Irvine biologists, chemists and computer scientists have identified an elusive pocket on the surface of the p53 protein that can be targeted by cancer-fighting drugs. The finding heralds a new treatment ...

Cancer created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using Twitter to track the flu: Researchers find a better way to screen the tweets

Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computational methods reveal how hospital-acquired bacteria spread

Scientists at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research have developed novel computational methods that have yielded essential knowledge of how hospital-acquired bacteria spread and ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers excel in predicting cancer drug sensitivity

Researchers from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM have developed a triumphant solution for predicting responses of breast cancer cells to a set of cancer ...

Cancer created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Computational intelligence opens up new avenues in Alzheimer's research

Researchers from the Computational Intelligence Group based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Facultad de Informática have used machine learning and data mining techniques to compare gene expresssion ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Georgia Tech creating high-tech tools to study autism

Researchers in Georgia Tech's Center for Behavior Imaging have developed two new technological tools that automatically measure relevant behaviors of children, and promise to have significant impact on the ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Studying everyday eye movements could aid in diagnosis of neurological disorders

Researchers at the University of Southern California have devised a method for detecting certain neurological disorders through the study of eye movements.

Neuroscience created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New statistical method provides way to analyze synchronized neural activity in animals

Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute have developed a new method of statistical analysis that can estimate the extent to which the activity of multiple neurons is group-wise synchronized.

Neuroscience created Aug 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Discovering new uses for old drugs

With the cost of putting a single new drug on the pharmacy shelves topping a staggering $1 billion, scientists are reporting development of a way to determine if an already-approved drug might be used to treat ...

Medications created Aug 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New method to find novel connections from gene to gene, drug to drug and between scientists

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new computational method that will make it easier for scientists to identify and prioritize genes, drug targets, and strategies for repositioning drugs that ...

Medical research created Jul 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple mathematical pattern describes shape of neuron 'jungle'

Neurons come in an astounding assortment of shapes and sizes, forming a thick inter-connected jungle of cells. Now, UCL neuroscientists have found that there is a simple pattern that describes the tree-like shape of all neurons.

Neuroscience created Jun 20, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast