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University of Birmingham Unveils Powerful IBM AI Cluster
Researchers at the University of Birmingham are set to benefit from the largest IBM® POWER9™ Artificial Intelligence (AI) cluster in the UK. Working with OCF, the high-performance compute, storage and data analytics integrator, the University will integrate a total of 11 IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems servers into its existing high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR).
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Lab Innovations 2018 Confirmed as a Major Hit with Visitors, Exhibitors and Speakers
More visitors than ever before and organisers announce dates for next year’s show - 30-31st October 2019.
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Simulation Helps Predict Crop Drops
Droughts or heat waves have consequences that spread beyond farmers anxiously watching their fields; these fluctuations in crop yields can send shockwaves through local and global food supplies and prices. In a new study, researchers added data on when each specific region plants and harvests its crops—and found it was the single most effective way to improve the simulations.
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Bioengineered Spinal Discs Successfully Implanted into Goats
Engineered spinal discs integrated with native discs maintained their structure and showed near-native mechanical properties two months after implantation in a goat model, demonstrating the feasibility of this approach.
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Drone to Drone: Can Bees Help Make Better Flying Robots?
Due to centrifugal force, humans and other animals tend to slow down when we approach a turn. Professor Mandyam Srinivasan's lab is the first to mathematically analyse the relationship between speed, curvature, and centrifugal force in this phenomenon. Their study used a high-speed-multi-camera system to capture video footage of bees loitering outside their hive.
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New Drug Target for Skin Cancer?
Loss of a protein called TRIM29 promotes cancer cell invasion in a common type of skin cancer, suggesting a novel diagnostic marker and a possible therapeutic target.
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DNA Origami Packed Full of Potent Anticancer Agents
Scientists have now developed a nanoplatform that selectively delivers small hairpin RNA transcription templates and chemotherapeutics into multidrug-resistant tumors. A deadly cocktail of gene-silencing elements and chemotherapeutic drugs effectively and selectively kills cells.
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Machine Learning Models Help Predict Which Patients Need A&E
Machine learning – a field of artificial intelligence that uses statistical techniques to enable computer systems to ‘learn’ from data – can be used to analyse electronic health records and predict the risk of emergency hospital admissions, a new study from The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford has found.
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Using Big Data to Reduce the Risk of Stroke
People with irregular and abnormally fast heart rates caused by a condition called atrial fibrillation could be at a greater risk of stroke and bleeding because they are not receiving optimal treatment, warn scientists from UCL and The University of Hong Kong (HKU).
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Skype Helps Beat the Blues
Social isolation and depression have become commonplace in older adults, with estimates suggesting almost 5 percent of adults aged 50 and above lived with major depression in 2015. What if you could address the problem through communication technology?
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