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Computing the Ravages of Time: Using Algorithms To Tackle Alzheimer’s Disease

Biomarker research, genetics, and imaging are all coming into play

In 1906, at a small medical meeting in Tübingen, Germany, physician Alois Alzheimer gave a now-famous presentation about a puzzling patient. At age 51, Auguste D.’s memory was failing...
Oct, 01, 2007
The Golden Age of Public Databases: Speeding Biomedical Discovery

Public databases impact not only how research is done but what kind of research is done in the first place.

The setting: a scientific conference in January 2008. The speaker, Bruce Ponder, MD, PhD, an oncology professor at Cambridge University, is describing a previously unknown link between a particular...
Oct, 01, 2008
Evolution and HIV: Using Computational Phylogenetics to Close In On a Killer

The study of HIV evolution is not only critical to fighting the virus; it has also driven advances in the computational tools used to study evolution in general.

When Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, it would be decades before HIV would jump from monkeys to humans and set off a devastating worldwide pandemic. But evolution is at the heart of...
Jul, 01, 2009
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