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Patrick Chwalek's research is focused on understanding various ecosystems and the living organisms within them. He has been creating a range of systems and tools, including wearables and environmental sensor systems, for researchers to use in the wild. In this interview, Chwalek talks about his experiences of deploying these systems outside the laboratory and shares his insights gained from studying different environments.
By Cathy Mengying Fang, Patrick Chwalek, May 2024
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Protein language models were nurtured by unlikely parents---corporations. Now that they have come of age, they have been forced to strike out on their own. A common pitfall that biotechnology platforms make is to attempt to solve as many problems, all at once, while in reality solving none. Whether these fledgling protein LLM companies will learn from the mistakes of their industry predecessors remains to be seen.
By Albin Hartwig, February 2024
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What you need to consider before collecting, processing, and analyzing mobile data for health applications.
By Afsaneh Doryab, September 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on billions of lives, with online communities playing an active part in supporting people's mental health.
By Chengcheng Qu, Renwen Zhang, September 2021
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In the "near" future, devices inside the body will help with endoscopies, biopsies, and even treatment of cancer and Parkinson's disease. What does it take to create such tiny devices fit for operation inside the human body?
By Deepak Vasisht, Guo Zhang, September 2019
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Hugh Kaul personalized medicine institute, University of Alabama Birmingham
By Sepideh Maleki, January 2019
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How data collection and reporting standards have shaped what we know and do not know about water contamination in Hoosick Falls, NY.
By Laura Rabinow, Lindsay Poirier, April 2017
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Technology can address biological threats like viral epidemics and bioterrorism that could put humankind on the brink of biological disaster.
By Ketaki Katdare, April 2017
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Russ Altman discusses how computational biology is rapidly transforming clinical practice, particularly in his own field of pharmacogenomics.
By Cristina Pop, Billy Rathje, July 2015
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Computational methods can be used to find associations between our genome and our traits, and new optimizations to these computations promise to do it much faster.
By Christoph Lippert, David Heckerman, July 2015
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Recent advances in genome typing and sequencing technologies have enabled quick generation of a vast amount of molecular data at very low cost. The mining and computational analysis of this type of data can help shape new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in biomedicine.
By Marina Sirota, Bin Chen, July 2015
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Suchi Saria of Johns Hopkins University shares how big data and machine learning can help improve the practice of healthcare, and how computing students can contribute.
By Narges Razavian, July 2015
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How computational biology might help in discovering the missing links between diet and disease.
By Malay Bhattacharyya, July 2015
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The director of Stanford University's Pande Lab discusses how his work with large-scale, distributed simulation is being used to study protein folding and its connection to disease.
By Cristina Pop, July 2015
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An introduction to Markov models, their significance, and an explanation of how a hidden Markov model can be used to model the ultrasonic calls made by mice.
By Adam A. Smith, July 2015
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Single-cell data creates computational opportunities for discovery in disease and human health.
By Karen Sachs, Tiffany Chen, July 2015
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How technology enables the data geek in life sciences and healthcare.
By Sarah Aerni, Hulya Farinas, Gautam Muralidhar, July 2015
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An interview with Paul Wicks, Vice President of Innovation at PatientsLikeMe, a patient network and real-time research platform.
By Diana Lynn MacLean, December 2014
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Intelligently leveraging data from millions of social media posts is a modern public health approach that has the potential to save many lives.
By Munmun De Choudhury, December 2014
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Creating a user experience to communicate the seriousness of HIV prevention and awareness can be both educational while entertaining. This combination along with a sense of cultural influence helps to both attract and engage millennials.
By Fay Cobb Payton, KaMar Galloway, December 2014
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Increasingly, personal health data can be tracked and integrated from numerous streams quickly and easily, but our feedback lingers in the land of "show the user a graph and hope." How can we help people make sense of personal health data?
By Matthew Kay, December 2014
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People tend to believe they are more aware of their own health behaviors than they really are. In this article, we present technologies that employ ubiquitous home sensing to support awareness of healthy habits.
By Matthew L. Lee, December 2014
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Why visualization will play a critical role in bringing big data decision making to a hospital bed near you.
By Megan Monroe, December 2014
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Wearable computing has the potential to fundamentally alter healthcare by enabling long-term patient monitoring and rehabilitation outside of the lab.
By Sinziana Mazilu, Gerhard Tröster, December 2014
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The intersection of biology and computer science is pushing computation beyond its traditional limits---forget algorithms think evolution.
By Dennis Shasha, March 2012
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Using neuroimaging, researchers are succesfully mapping neural connectivity and in the process creating vivid "brainbows."
By Amelio Vázquez-Reina, Won-Ki Jeong, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, September 2011
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Research teams from around the world reflect on their brain sensing setups.
By Evan M. Peck, Erin T. Solovey, September 2011
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Undergraduate students find that a genetically engineered machine can solve Hamiltonian Path Problems.
By Jeffrey L. Poet, A. Malcolm Campbell, Todd T. Eckdahl, Laurie J. Heyer, September 2010
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Somewhere between the studies of information technology and organic chemistry, researchers are trying to make tiny robots out of DNA molecules.
By Masami Hagiya, Fumiaki Tanaka, Ibuki Kawamata, September 2010
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