Tag: mathematics
-
Cancer Genome Data Visualization Tool Developed
29 December 2015. A bioinformatics team at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital created a Web-based system that illustrates genetic mutations behind pediatric cancers. The software and database in ProteinPaint, as the system is called, are described in a letter in today’s issue of the journal Nature Genetics (paid subscription required). The team led by Jinghui…
-
Detailed Brain Activity Imaging Being Developed
17 December 2015. An engineering group at University of Arizona is developing a new technology that promises to provide better images of electrical activity in the brain. The project, led by Arizona biomedical engineering professor Russell Witte, is funded by a three-year, $1.15 million grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of…
-
Computer Vision Devised as Drug Discovery Technique
15 December 2015. Pharmaceutical chemists at University of California in San Francisco developed techniques for adapting computer vision, like those used in robotics, to early-stage drug discovery. The team led by UC-San Francisco’s Steven Altschuler and Lani Wu describe its discovery in yesterday’s issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology (paid subscription required). Altschuler and Wu,…
-
Study: Records Database Offers Clinical Trial Savings
3 December 2015. A cost-benefit analysis shows pharmaceutical companies could reap sizable savings in their planning and conduct of clinical trials if they made regular use of a European electronic health records database. The study, led by Data Mining Institute in Geneva, Switzerland with co-authors from several pharmaceutical companies, appears in the January 2016 issue…
-
Wearable Personal Instruction System Being Developed
2 December 2015. A device that provides personal step-by-step instruction to individuals as they undertake various tasks is being developed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. The system, designed in the lab of professor Mahadev Satyanarayanan, is funded by a four-year $2.8 million grant from National Science Foundation. Satyanarayanan and colleagues are seeking a…
-
Crop Disease Images Collected, Available Via Smartphones
25 November 2015. A team in the U.S. and Switzerland is assembling a database of 50,000 images of plant diseases for a smartphone app to help farmers worldwide deal with those diseases. Entomologist David Hughes at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and epidemiologist Marcel Salathé at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne or EPFL, the…
-
Vital-Signs Sensors Built Into Ingestible Capsule
19 November 2015. Engineering and medical researchers developed and tested in pigs a swallowed capsule with sensors that records heart and respiratory rates in real time. The team from the bioengineering lab of Robert Langer and Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology published its proof-of-concept results yesterday in the journal PLOS One. The technology from…
-
Winners of ALS Variation Models Challenge Announced
5 November 2015. Participants from universities in the U.S. and Taiwan are winners of a challenge to develop mathematical models that predict variations in progression of ALS in patients with the disease. The Dream ALS Stratification Prize4Life Challenge is a joint undertaking of Sage Bionetworks, a not-for-profit biomedical research organization, Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment…
-
Computer Model Devised to Predict Drug Side Effects
2 November 2015. A systems biology lab developed a prototype computer model that can test for potential side effects of drugs from an individual’s blood sample. The team led by bioengineering professor Bernhard Palsson at University of California in San Diego published its proof-of-concept results last week in the journal Cell Systems. Palsson and first…
-
Special: The Next Health Care Disruption
– Sponsored Content – This blog post is part of the ‘Think Further’ series sponsored by Fred Alger Management. For more “Think Further” content, please visit www.thinkfurtheralger.com.” The frustration of the physicians comes through, piercing the structured format of a scientific journal. In July 2015, 118 oncologists at leading medical centers and cancer research institutes…