Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

Using mathematical analysis of patterns of human and animal cell behavior, scientists say they have developed a computer program that mimics the behavior of such cells in any part of the body. Led by ...

A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life reconstructions ever created. Using computer technology, scientists have ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...

(Nanowerk News) By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of ...

Scientists show how stem cells process DNA with speed and precision, revealing principles that could lead to programmable DNA-based chips for biotechnology and medicine. (Nanowerk News) In the human ...

Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has signed a multiyear deal to use IBM’s Cell chip to develop embedded computer systems that will process graphically intense images for the medical, defense and life ...

IBM has started selling the first computer based on its multicore Cell processor, targeting organizations that run compute-intensive tasks such as medical imaging or oil exploration. The Cell chip was ...

Unit's 200-GFLOPS performance shines in mobile military applications The PowerBlock 200 is presented as the first rugged computer using the 64-bit IBM Cell Broadband Engine processor. Taking advantage ...

What just happened? Following news that its human brain cell-powered computer can run Doom, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has announced it is working on two small data centers running on ...