Health Science
Research will help develop a resource for human disease study.
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Troubleshooting, scheduling, communicating, and consulting are just part of lab manager Lisa Wright's many responsibilities
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A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $2.7 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop technology intended to help address the challenges of “big data” – data sets that are both massive and complex.
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Computation unravels old and new questions in biology and chemistry
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For many years scientists thought that mosquitoes provided the disease organisms which they spread with a relatively free ride because the insects didn’t have much in the way of natural defenses to fight off these microscopic stowaways.
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A new study indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a sweetener found in national food supplies across the world, may be a contributory factor to the rising global epidemic of type 2 diabetes.
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Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shown that a therapeutic approach harnessing proteins from the human immune system can suppress HIV in mice without the need for daily application and could one day be used in humans to treat the disease.
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Scientists are now able to produce three-dimensional images of breast tissue that are two to three times sharper than those made using current CT scanners at hospitals
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Berkeley Lab research could lead to new ways to ID women who have higher risk of breast cancer from low-dose radiation.
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Technology within financial reach of small hospitals.
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Northwestern universities have discovered how to control the shape of nanoparticles that move DNA through the body and have shown that the shapes of these carriers may make a big difference in how well they work in treating cancer and other diseases.
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