Category: Science

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Schools recruit girls in underrepresented STEM classes

Thomas Jefferson High School senior Toby Lechtenberger modifies code to create a graphic user interface in science teacher Denise Hoag’s classroom on Thursday, Jan. 6., 2017 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Hoag are trying to get more girls interested in computer science, a traditionally male-dominated field.

Genome Engineering Staff Researcher – Hsu Laboratory

Research in the Hsu lab takes place at the intersection of bioengineering, genomics, and neuroscience to develop novel genome engineering technologies and uncover biological mechanisms behind neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. The Hsu Lab is recruiting to develop and apply novel technologies for precise and efficient manipulation of genetic and cell states.

Three ways to die on Venus, and other space facts

Today we call it the “Big Dipper,” but in the year 75000, we may look up in the night sky and admire a constellation known affectionately as the “Big Spatula.” As astronomer Dean Regas explains, that’s because the stars are moving relative to our position here.

How serverless computing could help enterprises cut cloud complexity

As some enterprises find the reality of cloud fails to live up to the hype, Clive Longbottom explains why serverless computing could help firms attain the operational benefits they’re looking for Setting up a cloud computing platform can be a little more complex than many organisations expect, as there are so many things to take into consideration. This essential guide brings together 6 articles wisely selected to help you understand what the real benefits of converged infrastructure are.

WISeKey India Joint Venture First Seed Financing Round Oversubscribed

As per the terms of the Joint Venture, WISeKey India will localize WISeKey’s Cybersecurity Platform and provide Indian customers – both individuals and organizations – trusted identities for the Internet of Things objects and mobiles, enabling them to complete secure online transactions with confidence, trust the identities of others, and the identities of the IoT infrastructure. These transactions will run via localized Root of Trust , serve the Indian Ecosystem, and will benefit sectors such as telecom, manufacturing, retail, and e-commerce.

Using 21st Century Science to Improve Risk-Related Evaluations

Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cellular biology, -omics technologies, analytical methods, bioinformatics, and computational tools and methods into the field of toxicology. Similar efforts are being pursued in the field of exposure science with the goals of obtaining more accurate and complete exposure data on individuals and populations for thousands of chemicals over the lifespan; predicting exposures from use data and chemical-property information; and translating exposures between test systems and humans.

Johns Hopkins researchers helping in search for elusive cancer causing genes

A group of scientists at Johns Hopkins University is studying various bioinformatics methods to discover the ones that help identify the genetic mutations that encourage tumor cells to thrive in an effort to develop drugs to fight the cancer. A group of scientists at Johns Hopkins University is studying various bioinformatics methods to discover the ones that help identify the genetic mutations that encourage tumor cells to thrive in an effort to develop drugs to fight the cancer.

Nanoscience expert receives 2016 Dickson Prize in Science

Chad A. Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, has been awarded the 2016 Dickson Prize in Science. The prize is awarded annually by Carnegie Mellon University to an individual in the U.S. who has made outstanding contributions to science.

Amazon commits to hiring 100,000 U.S. workers

While many of the jobs will be in warehouses, Amazon said the company will be looking for engineers and software developers in such areas as cloud computing and machine learning. “Innovation is one of our guiding principles at Amazon, and it’s created hundreds of thousands of American jobs,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, in a statement .

Teaching Computers to Recognize Sick Guts: Machine-Learning and the Microbiome

A new proof-of-concept study by researchers from the University of California San Diego succeeded in training computers to “learn” what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome looks like based on its genetic makeup. Since this can be done by genetically sequencing fecal samples, the research suggests there is great promise for new diagnostic tools that are, unlike blood draws, non-invasive.

Inspur Joins Open Compute Project As Platinum Member

OCP was initiated by Facebook in 2011 with the mission to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing — reducing the environmental impact of data centers. Since then, OCP has been consistently innovating around open source contributions for networking, servers, storage and Open Rack.

Edmonds CC students participate in NASA-funded undergraduate research

From left, Edmonds CC students Cali Drake, Stephanie Bernard, Chris Nguyen, and Thinh Pham participated in a NASA-funded undergraduate research project during fall quarter. Edmonds Community College students have partnered with a local technology company to test how well plasma jets can eliminate specific types of bacteria from the surface of spacecraft.

UNC Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies dies at age 91

Oliver Smithies, D.Phil., who was recruited to North Carolina with grant funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 20 years later, died today at the age of 91. In 1987, the Biotechnology Center helped recruit seven researchers from the University of Wisconsin in Madison to start the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s molecular biology and biotechnology research program. The Biotech Center’s faculty recruitment grant program, inaugurated to help attract that group of Wisconsin scientists, was named to honor Smithies after he became a Nobel laureate in 2007.

Hubble Looks at Voyager’s Future

Nothing built by humans has ever gotten as far from our planet as Voyager 1, which is now almost 21 billion kilometers from Earth. We’ve talked about the future of both Voyagers before in these pages – Voyager 1 passes within about 1.6 light years of the star Gliese 445 in some 40,000 years, its closest approach to a neighboring star.