When you step on the gas pedal, you expect acceleration (and lots of it). Stomp on the brake to come safely to a stop in the rain. Finger the power-assisted steering wheel and the car obeys. Make a...
Oct, 01, 2009
Jill Higginson at the University of Delaware uses OpenSim to study stroke.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
Jill Higginson, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University...
Oct, 01, 2009
Charles A. Taylor, PhD, associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, is PI for the cardiovascular dynamics project within Simbios.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
Cardiovascular disease is a primary source of morbidity and mortality in the United...
Oct, 01, 2009
Jay Humphrey at Texas A&M collaborates with Simbios on a fluid/solid/growth model of the cardiovascular system.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
A new model of arteries that simultaneously simulates fluid, solid, and growth...
Oct, 01, 2009
Katherine Holzbaur of Wake Forest University Medical School simulates the biomechanics of the upper limb.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
Katherine Holzbaur, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest...
Oct, 01, 2009
University of Florida’s B.J. Fregly hopes to use OpenSim to simulate the knee.
from http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/simbios-bringing-biomedical-simulation-your-fingertips
B.J. Fregly, PhD, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of...
Oct, 01, 2009
A robot that develops hypotheses of its own
Robots already have a place in many labs, automating tedious tasks such as pipetting samples. But a new system designed at Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom has taken laboratory automation...
Jul, 01, 2009
Computer simulations suggest both existing theories of membrane fusion are valid
Cell membranes fuse with other membranes to allow material in and out. If incoming material includes invading viruses, that can be bad news for the cells. Until recently, the process of membrane...
Jan, 01, 2007
iHOP organizes interconnected information
Text-mining tools such as iHOP (Information Hyperlinked Over Proteins) are doing for biological literature what hyperlinks and search engines do for the Internet: organizing interconnected...
Apr, 01, 2007
Explaining biocomputation to non-scientists can leave a person tongue-tied. Technical jargon gets in the way, and the breadth of the field resists encapsulation.
To help out, and to reach out...
Oct, 01, 2007