Advances in visualization changing work flows for understanding molecular dynamics, tracking cell movements, and designing interventional procedures
The pathway from raw data to valuable visualization of molecules, cells or organs being simulated over time involves several potentially painstaking steps. Typically, researchers must generate a set...
Sep, 02, 2011
The National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research has recently completed the first stage of an ambitious program to expand the computational infrastructure and software tools needed to...
Jan, 01, 2006
2-D visualizations by HemoVis software leads to faster, more accurate diagnoses
To diagnose heart disease noninvasively, scientists combine 3-D visualizations of the heart and blood vessels (reconstructed from CT scans) with computer simulations of blood flow. Typically, a...
Jan, 02, 2012
2-D computer simulation reveals unexpected pathway
What goes into the stomach must come out, but perhaps not in the same order in which it entered, as gastroenterologists have long assumed. A two-dimensional computer model of human stomach digestion...
Jan, 01, 2007
Today, the knowledge, experience and memory of clinicians or scientists function as the exclusive resource for distinguishing normal from abnormal brain images; identifying signatures or biomarkers...
Jul, 01, 2009
Computational simulations of life in motion at every scale—molecular, cellular, tissue-level, and whole organism—are boosting our understanding of the role mechanics plays in controlling life.
From atoms and molecules to insects, dinosaurs, and humans, computational researchers are finding that much of life can be understood in mechanical terms. Indeed, the machines of life are...
Jan, 01, 2008
Computational modeling can help fill gaps in how we develop and review new drugs and devices
What role does computational modeling play at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? If you ask Paul Watkins, MD, director of the Hamner—University of North Carolina...
Sep, 01, 2011
Having developed detailed and sophisticated models of both E. Coli and human metabolism, researchers can begin to build toward a whole cell model that will be useful for the study of human health and disease.
If biologists really understood the functioning of the genome, they could in principle recreate it in silico. Instead of a choreographed swirl of molecules inside a living cell, electrons...
Oct, 01, 2008
Students, not faculty, are the ones in charge
Outwardly, the Biomedical Computation at Stanford (BCATS) conference resembles other academic conferences: Researchers converge to hear about the latest developments in their field and to...
Jan, 01, 2008
Simulation of a one-million-atom virus reveals unexpected twist
Giving new meaning to the phrase computer virus, researchers have created a computer simulation of an entire biological virus comprising approximately one million atoms.
“It wasn’t...
Jul, 01, 2006