December 2024
Connecting the neurodots
Argonne-Harvard collaboration on Aurora aims to refine our picture of the human brain.
Category Archives: Biology
October 2024
Pandemic preparedness
A PNNL physicist turned from basic to applied research: biopreparedness.
May 2024
Under life’s hood
Weill Cornell team uses powerful computing to decipher the molecular mechanics of healthy and diseased cells.
June 2023
Not-so-plain sight
An Oak Ridge-led group combines algorithms and supercomputers to reveal information that scientists missed.
January 2023
Computing function from form
Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers extend AI’s prediction prowess to complex protein structures.
September 2022
Scaling cancer
DOE researchers span multiple scales on the Summit supercomputer to zero in on possible protein faults that produce cancer.
May 2022
Bargain proteins
A Flatiron Institute biologist uses supercomputers and their quantum cousins to streamline the search for promising drugs.
December 2021
Protein shakeup
Virus and other biology simulations will get a big boost from Oak Ridge’s Frontier exascale computer.
August 2021
DNA repair 2.0
Oak Ridge’s Summit supercomputer simulates a shape-shifting protein that’s a key part of life’s machinery.
May 2021
Countering COVID
An ambitious hunt for antiviral therapies underscores how DOE high-performance computers can offer rapid results in health emergencies.