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Computer Modeling Reveals Hidden Conversations Within Cells
UCSD biochemists have developed a computer program that helps explain a long-standing mystery: how the same proteins can play different roles in a wide range of cellular processes, including those leading to immune responses and cancer.   view more (2005-09-16)

NCAR Adds Resources to TeraGrid
Researchers who use the TeraGrid, the nation's most comprehensive and advanced infrastructure for open scientific research, can now leverage the computing resources of a powerful, 2048-processor BlueGene/L system at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).   view more (2007-08-13)

A new computational technique predicts side-effects of a major cancer drug
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a novel computer technique to search for the side effects of major pharmaceuticals.   view more (2007-11-28)

£350,000 Computer Boost for New Science Centre at University of Leicester
A new £350,000 supercomputer is set to make number crunching as nice as pi for mathematicians at the University of Leicester. The University has established a new Centre for Mathematical Modelling within the Faculty of Science and will link researchers in diverse disciplines such Physics,... view more (2000-11-07)

Tony Blair opens new centre for physics research
The Prime Minister Tony Blair opened The Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at the University of Durham today [Friday 18th October 2002]. The multi-million pound science complex will create a world-leading centre of excellence in fundamental physics, combining research into the building blocks of... view more (2002-10-18)

Mathematicians help unlock secrets of the immune system
A group of scientists, led by mathematicians, has taken on the challenge of building a common model of immune responses.   view more (2007-10-10)

Supersizing the supercomputers: What's next?
Supercomputers excel at highly calculation-intensive tasks, such as molecular modeling and large-scale simulations, and have enabled significant scientific breakthroughs.   view more (2005-08-31)

New £6m biocentre to revolutionise the production of safer medicines
The University of Manchester has been awarded £6m to open a new biocentre which will revolutionise the way future medicines are produced - making them safer and more effective.   view more (2005-03-14)

Quantum computers could excel in modeling chemical reactions
Quantum computers would likely outperform conventional computers in simulating chemical reactions involving more than four atoms, according to scientists at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Haverford College.   view more (2008-11-21)

CERN awards the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics for its role in Grid development
In the presence of Minister Letizia Moratti, CERN Director General, Robert Aymar has presented the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) with an award to recognize its contributions to developing computational Grids, and its pioneering efforts to establish and promote Grid... view more (2004-12-01)

HEBREW UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR NAMED FELLOW OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
Prof. Sason Shaik of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the association has announced.   view more (2003-11-23)

Hamilton College Researchers Discover New Molecules with the Potential to Treat Breast Cancer
Hamilton College researchers have identified molecules that have been shown to be effective in the fight against breast cancer.    view more (2007-05-07)

MIT: Computer model reveals cells' inner workings
After spending years developing a computational model to help illuminate cell signaling pathways, a team of MIT researchers decided to see what would happen if they "broke" the model.   view more (2008-10-17)

Map predicting spread of avian flu
The 2003 epidemic of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the Netherlands is the only recent epidemic of HPAI in the developed world.   view more (2007-04-19)

SPEEDY AIRCRAFT SIMULATION A MODEL PROJECT FOR DARESBURY
Software engineers at CLRC Daresbury Laboratory have been working with British Aerospace in helping to speed up the modelling of aircraft aerodynamics. This will allow fast and accurate simulation of different aircraft, highlighting the effect of changes to existing airframes and helping to develop... view more (1999-02-03)

New Supercomputer Enhances Reliability of Weather Predictions
Sweden's new supercomputer for weather forecasting will greatly improve prediction reliability. An enhanced and powerful computational package, tailored especially for the needs of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, is now installed at the National Supercomputer Center,... view more (2005-02-14)

New computational technique can predict drug side effects
Early identification of adverse effects of drugs before they are tested in humans is crucial in developing new therapeutics, as unexpected effects account for a third of all drug failures during the development process.   view more (2007-12-12)

The UAB is participating in the LHC project to study the origins of matter
On 23 August the Scientific Information Port (PIC), a technological centre located on the campus of the UAB, started work on the first stage of the European project Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle accelerator in the world, which has the aim of reproducing conditions similar to... view more (2007-09-14)

Carnegie Mellon technique accelerates biological image analysis
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Lane Center for Computational Biology have discovered how to significantly speed up critical steps in an automated method for analyzing cell cultures and other biological specimens.   view more (2008-05-01)

Bioinformatics technology developed at Argonne provides new insight into microbial activities
Scientists may gain a new insight into the relationship between viruses and their environments thanks to a new computational technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. This technology has already been used to identify subtle differences... view more (2008-03-17)

Tool helps doctors tailor infertility treatments for couples
Physicians must consider a number of variables when treating couples who cannot naturally conceive because of factors involving both the woman and man.   view more (2006-02-23)

Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale
Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes.   view more (2008-06-13)

Results promising for computational quantum chemical methods for drug development
New research, led by a Virginia Tech chemist, may someday help natural-products chemists decrease by years the amount of time it takes for the development of certain types of medicinal drugs.   view more (2007-12-21)

Insignia -- A new way to identify viruses and bacteria
Now that the genome sequences of hundreds of bacteria and viruses are known, we can design tests that will rapidly detect the presence of these species based solely on their DNA.   view more (2007-05-18)

The Cambridge-MIT Institute launches an initiative to accelerate next-generation drug discovery
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) is today launching a new initiative to unite biologists and medical researchers with physicists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians to work on an innovative approach to discovering the next generation of drugs. CMI is funding a transatlantic... view more (2004-03-24)
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