Computer Science

University Park, PA — As SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve, new variants are expected to arise that may have an increased ability to infect their hosts and evade the hosts’ immune systems. The first key step in infection is when the virus’ spike protein binds to the ACE2 receptor on human cells. Researchers at Penn State […]

Washington, DC — Whole-heart ventricular modelling has come a long way in recent years and is currently witnessing the evolution of a variety of computational approaches, especially within the realm of personalized technologies for patient-specific clinical applications. Ventricular arrhythmias, which are abnormal heartbeats, are one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. To pursue a better […]

San Antonio, TX — A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow brightly in cells and animal tissues, providing a real-time way to track the spread and intensity of viral infection as it happens in animal models, researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) report in […]

New York, NY — Machine learning can pinpoint “genes of importance” that help crops to grow with less fertilizer, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. It can also predict additional traits in plants and disease outcomes in animals, illustrating its applications beyond agriculture.  Using genomic data to predict outcomes in agriculture and medicine is […]

Urbana, IL — Yi “Edwin” Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and member of the Beckman Institute’s Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory headed by Stephen Boppart, explored how deep learning methods can make polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography, or PS-OCT, more cost-effective and better equipped to diagnose cancer in […]

Incheon, South Korea — The term ‘DNA’ immediately calls to mind the double-stranded helix that contains all our genetic information. But the individual units of its two strands are pairs of molecules bonded with each other in a selective, complementary fashion. Turns out, one can take advantage of this pairing property to perform complex mathematical […]

Barcelona, Spain — Some types of chemotherapy eliminate cancer cells by damaging their DNA. These drugs can also affect healthy cells, where the damage can generate mutations that persist after the end of the treatment. Researchers at the IRB Barcelona’s Biomedical Genomics Laboratory, led by ICREA researcher Dr. Núria López-Bigas, have identified the “footprints” (in the form […]

Bielefeld, Germany — Usually, the individuals of a population of marine species that have the potential to disperse over long distances all share a similar genetic composition. Yet every now and then, at small, localised sites, small groups of genetically different individuals suddenly appear within populations for a short period of time. A new study […]

West Lafayette, IN — Regulatory T cells (TReg) are essential to regulating the immune system. However, there are several different types of TReg cells, and scientists are only now beginning to differentiate among them and understand their functions and roles. Researchers from Purdue University, including Majid Kazemian, an assistant professor of biochemistry and computer science, and […]

Beijing, China — Traditional medicines have been globally used to treat various diseases for thousands of years, and critically, still play important roles in modern-day healthcare. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic, traditional medicines displayed encouraging effects in improving symptom management, reducing deterioration, mortality, and disease recurrence rates in China. With the assistance […]

Jerusalem, Israel — We are in the midst of a scientific and technological revolution.  The computers of today use artificial intelligence to learn from example, and execute sophisticated functions that until recently were thought impossible.  These smart algorithms can recognize faces and even drive autonomous vehicles.  Deep learning networks, which are responsible for many of […]

Frederiksberg, Denmark — An artificial intelligence tool created by researchers at the University of Copenhagen can quickly and accurately identify suspicious or particularly ‘talented’ proteins in our bodies based upon their movements alone. This includes proteins that are involved in nanomedicines, cancer spawning proteins, proteins used in green detergent application – and probably virus proteins […]