Medical research
Tiny ion is crucial for HIV replication, say chemists
A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself.
Jan 24, 2023
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News tagged with computer simulations
Neuroscience
Brain imaging reveals the movies in our mind
Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one's own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are bringing ...
Sep 22, 2011
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Medical research
Simulations show super-spreading events pushed the exponential growth phase of COVID-19
A trio of researchers, two with the Polish Academy of Sciences, the other the University of Warsaw, has found evidence showing that super-spreader events pushed the exponential growth phase of COVID-19. In their paper published ...
Neuroscience
Computer hardware originally designed for 3-D games could hold the key to replicating the human brain
Researchers at the University of Sussex have created the fastest and most energy efficient simulation of part of a rat brain using off-the-shelf computer hardware.
Dec 19, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ultraviolet light has bright future in fight against COVID-19
A particular type of ultraviolet light known as far-UVC could be safely used for air disinfection in public places without harming people, according to new research carried out jointly at the University of St Andrews and ...
May 29, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Common anti-inflammatory coaxes liver cancer cells to commit suicide
The anti-inflammatory drug celecoxib, known by the brand name Celebrex, triggers liver cancer cell death by reacting with a protein in a way that makes those cells commit suicide, according to a new study.
May 16, 2011
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Neuroscience
The art of smell: Research suggests the brain processes smell both like a painting and a symphony
What happens when we smell a rose? How does our brain process the essence of its fragrance? Is it like a painting—a snapshot of the flickering activity of cells—captured in a moment in time? Or like a symphony, an evolving ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Medications
Lying down, sitting, leaning over? What science says about the best way to take your medicine
When pharmacists dispense tablets or capsules they commonly advise when and how often to take them, and if this needs to be with or without food.
Aug 18, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Stereotypes and status symbols impact if a face is viewed as black or white
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Tufts University, Stanford University and the University of California, Irvine has found that the perception of race can be altered by cues to social status as simple as the clothes ...
Sep 26, 2011
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Dentistry
Engineering breakthrough can mitigate COVID-19 contamination in dental clinics
Dental practices have been shuttered since March after being cautioned by the American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to close their offices to all but emergencies. Recently, they provided ...
Aug 27, 2020
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Computer simulation
A computer simulation, a computer model or a computational model is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modeling of many natural systems in physics (computational physics), chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, and social science and in the process of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation of those systems, or to observe their behavior.
Computer simulations vary from computer programs that run a few minutes, to network-based groups of computers running for hours, to ongoing simulations that run for days. The scale of events being simulated by computer simulations has far exceeded anything possible (or perhaps even imaginable) using the traditional paper-and-pencil mathematical modeling: over 10 years ago, a desert-battle simulation, of one force invading another, involved the modeling of 66,239 tanks, trucks and other vehicles on simulated terrain around Kuwait, using multiple supercomputers in the DoD High Performance Computer Modernization Program; a 1-billion-atom model of material deformation (2002); a 2.64-million-atom model of the complex maker of protein in all organisms, a ribosome, in 2005; and the Blue Brain project at EPFL (Switzerland), began in May 2005, to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level.
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