An explanation of geometric constraints in computational biomechanics
Suppose 20 friends live in the same city and want to meet for dinner. They should be able to identify a unique spot that minimizes the squared distance everyone needs to travel by taking the...
Jan, 02, 2012
Exploring the current state of connectomics--in the midst of hype
Connectomics is having a moment. Following on the heels of genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and microbiomics, the latest “omic” to seize the spotlight is generating...
Jun, 20, 2013
Hi-C technique looks at chromosomes at unprecedented level of resolution
Try taking a human hair as long as Manhattan and cramming it—unsnarled—inside a marble. This is the challenge faced by a 2-meter-long strand of DNA as it folds into its compact array of...
Jan, 01, 2010
Mechanical forces drive many processes in the human body, from organ and tissue formation during development, to stem cell differentiation, to wound healing. Until recently, scientists could only...
Oct, 01, 2009
Balancing Breadth and Depth
The last decade saw a proliferation of training programs at the intersection of life science and computation, with more than 60 new degree and certificate programs launched in the United States alone...
Sep, 01, 2005
Using computation, researchers narrow the search space for directed evolution; guide mutagenesis; and create de novo enzymes
Enzymes are among nature’s crowning achievements: they accelerate chemical reactions, making life possible. People have co-opted natural enzymes for industrial use for thousands of years (think...
Feb, 19, 2013
Computation shows that the skull guides the wrinkling
In the four months before birth, a fetus’s brain grows from a smooth tube of neurons into a highly crinkled, convolved mass of tissue. Because the cerebral cortex has a surface area nearly...
Jun, 01, 2010
Researcher coaxes long strands of DNA into predetermined geometric shapes
Designing nanostructures of DNA just got easier. Paul Rothemund, PhD, a senior research fellow at Caltech has found a way to coax a long strand of DNA into a predetermined geometric shape by mixing...
Jul, 01, 2006
On the computer screen, vessels throb realistically with each pump of the heart while the river of blood swirls and pools at curves and intersections. This is a simulation built with SimVascular...
Apr, 01, 2007
University of California, San Diego’s Alison Marsden uses SimVascular to do patient-specific modeling of blood flow for surgical applications.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
Alison Marsden, PhD, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering...
Oct, 01, 2009
- 1 of 4
- ››