DISCOVERIES, Inventions News, Oct 19, 2011

AI solves complex biology problem from scratch ExtremeTech In this example, I mean that ABE is capable of analysis that a human scientist would normally have to do. As for the complexity of biology… yes, it's pretty insane, and I think there's a lot more left to discover, too. Lab - on - a - chip. See all stories on this topic »

Theracrine Announces Publication Identifying Potential Novel Cancer Spread Target MarketWatch (press release) These new findings provide for a novel avenue by which the biology of cancer spread can be interrupted to reduce ongoing survival signaling and thereby improve cancer patient outcomes. Dr. Massague is the Chairman of the Cancer Biology and Genetics ... See all stories on this topic »

Cellular Dynamics International's (CDI) Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell ... MarketWatch (press release) "CDI is the first company to utilize stem cell technology to manufacture the vast quantities of high quality stem cells and tissue cells required to better understand human biology, revolutionize the drug discovery process, and develop cell-based ... See all stories on this topic »

Immunity unravelled Frontline One half of the prize has gone to Jules Hoffman and Bruce Beutler “for theirdiscoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity” and the other half to Ralph Steinman “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity”. ... See all stories on this topic » Frontline

Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation to Fund Further Therapeutic Evaluation Studies ... MarketWatch (press release) However, our underlying predictive discovery capabilities are broadly applicable and as part of the development and validation activities associated with establishing these capabilities, a number of very promising discoveries were made in other areas ... See all stories on this topic »

Morehouse Study Explains Why Blacks at Greater Risk of Dying from Breast Cancer Patch.com By Janita Poe Dr. Veena N. Rao, Professor and Co-Director of the Cancer Biology Program, GeorgiaCancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Department of OB/GYN, Morehouse School of Medicine. Courtesy, Morehouse School of Medicine Morehouse School ... See all stories on this topic »

Lundbeck establishes research centre in China pharmabiz.com The new centre will improve Lundbeck's possibilities for identifying attractive new discoveries in the Chinese and Asian research environments and it will also enhance Lundbeck's opportunities for entering into research collaborations with businesses ... See all stories on this topic »

Dutch edition of Reason in Revolt out now - Preface In Defense of Marxism (blog) The latest discoveries of science have fundamentally modified the old view of evolution as a slow, gradual process, uninterrupted by sudden catastrophes and leaps. Since the book first appeared, there have been a number of spectacular advances in ... See all stories on this topic »

Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near Technology Review (blog) However, the difficulty of building human-level software goes deeper than computationally modeling the structural connections and biology of each of our neurons. "Brain duplication" strategies like these presuppose that there is no fundamental issue in ... See all stories on this topic » Technology Review (blog)

Elsevier Honors the 2011 Nobel Laureates MarketWatch (press release) Steinman, who sadly died three days before the announcement, served as a reviewer for Cell and Immunity, also publishing extensively with Trends in Immunology,Current Biology, Cellular Immunology, Current Opinion in Immunology and Elsevier S&T ... See all stories on this topic »

T-rex was bigger and grew faster than we thought, claim experts who 'weighed ... Daily Mail 'We often hear about new T. rex discoveries that rival SUE in some select measurement, but body size is a three-dimensional parameter and SUE is much more robust than other known skeletons,' he says. The weight estimates also alter understanding of ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Free Range Brown Dwarfs Universe Today “We could not have made these exciting discoveries if not for the remarkable capabilities of Subaru and the VLT. Instruments that can image large patches of the sky and take hundreds of spectra at once are key to our success,” said Motohide Tamura of ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

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