A team of researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Computational Biology Department (CBD) have developed new methods to identify parts of the genome critical to understanding how certain traits of species evolved.
Evolution
May 8, 2023
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The Arctic is no stranger to loss. As the region warms nearly four times faster than the rest of the world, glaciers collapse, wildlife suffers and habitats continue to disappear at a record pace.
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2022
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A simple statistical test shows that contrary to current practice, the "gaps" within DNA protein and sequence alignments commonly used in evolutionary biology can provide important information about nucleotide and amino acid ...
Evolution
Aug 16, 2022
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Part of a gene is better than none when identifying a species of microbe. But for Rice University computer scientists, part was not nearly enough in their pursuit of a program to identify all the species in a microbiome.
Biotechnology
Jun 30, 2022
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When Delphi-Facebook and the U.S. Census Bureau provided near-real time estimates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake last spring, their weekly surveys drew on responses from as many as 250,000 people.
Mathematics
Dec 8, 2021
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Convolutional neural networks running on quantum computers have generated significant buzz for their potential to analyze quantum data better than classical computers can. While a fundamental solvability problem known as ...
General Physics
Oct 18, 2021
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Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy called Makani, UC San Diego's Alison Coil, Rhodes College's David Rupke and a group of collaborators from around the world made a novel discovery. Published ...
Astronomy
Oct 31, 2019
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A 'deep learning' approach to detecting storms on Saturn is set to transform our understanding of planetary atmospheres, according to UCL and University of Arizona researchers.
Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2019
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Whether a worm, a human or a blue whale, all multicellular life begins as a single-celled egg.
Biotechnology
Apr 26, 2018
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Emperor penguins are an endangered species. Scientists are protecting the largest of all penguins by monitoring their numbers precisely and investigating which factors affect their population. A team led by researchers at ...
Ecology
May 29, 2024
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