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A focus on the common properties of cancer would perhaps provide more hope. The most obvious is the need for angiogenesis: the formation of new blood vessels to irrigate deep layer…

Zurich, Switzerland We are hiring a PhD student to develop algorithms for reconstructing neural circuits from series of electron microscopy images. The approach includes computer v…

A company lacks DNA. What it has is cash flow. Look up for example what did Nokia sell before selling cell phones. Or look into what PG says about his recruits: that he chooses the…

And if you are doing it in collaboration with others, you'll be creating a network that will support you throughout your life.

1. Establish a comment review system: two steps to get the comment public. 2. Show a random subset of the comments to users under a threshold score. Would avoid to an undetermined …

"But if you're wondering if you could squeeze a little extra performance out of your program by switching to QuartzGL — probably not unless the key limitation in your program is ra…

The original paper: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v8/n3/full/nmeth.1566.ht... ... under subscription, but at least figures and the abstract are visible.

Very nice, thanks for sharing! For my own purposes I implemented the function in clojure, which I find more readable. Destructuring and literal vectors are great assets of clojure.…

For "DNA research" (or rather, searching for peptide sequence matches), there's HMMER at http://hmmer.janelia.org/ , which uses hidden markov models. Claims to be great at detectin…

A popular Soviet SF writer Sever Gansovsky in his short story "The Host of Bay" (1962) described a sea monster consisting of microscopical particles which can self-organize themsel…

"A functional, object-oriented programming language based on Java and .NET, Scala includes some constructs for parallelisation from the outset." "The goal is to overcome the challe…

The most effective habit of highly creative people is persistence, the ability to work and work and work while resisting burn-out. Solitude has a lot to do with persistence. When w…

Don't miss the silicon retina cameras by Tobi Delbruck, used for the pencil balancer: http://siliconretina.ini.uzh.ch