MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'folding'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:15 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4517202&cid=t_181753_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fsix-slick-science-picks.html Science video widget – Shortform offered me a sneak preview of their video widget, which allows users to embed a video channel into their blog. Contraceptive pill not to blame for feminized fish – Despite claims that excreted contraceptive hormones are causing endocrine disruption in aquatic animals evidence suggests that this is not the case. Dark Energy, Dark Matter – What is the difference between dark energy and dark matter? NASA explains…even though they don't know what either is. Two sides to every story – even the Lord of the Rings – What if we were to look at Tolkien's epic from Mordor's perspective? Gandalf is a war-monger intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of Mordor and its southern allies because scie... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4517202 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:00:06 +0100 4517202 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2610893&cid=t_181753_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRavuQF62V5c%2F The New York Times has a long profile today of Cato’s Randal O’Toole, scourge of urban planners. But O’Toole doesn’t fit the portrait of a corporate advocate. On visits to Capitol Hill, he blends in as a middle-aged, middle-height man in a dark suit — but his beard gives him away, its shaggy twists seemingly fitting for a forest dweller. He wears a string tie that most Americans would only recognize on Colonel Sanders. His lapel doesn’t carry the standard-issue flag pin but a bronze bust of his dog, Chip. The Belgian tervuren won it in a dog show. O’Toole routinely hikes and bikes dozens of miles, and he proudly announces that he has never driven a car to work. Far from living on a luxurious Virginia manor, he left his last Oregon town when it adde... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2610893 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:52:46 +0100 2610893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1432559&cid=t_181753_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F287066761%2F Technology Review was the first place I saw it, then someone put it up on Friendfeed and now Andrew Perry has a great post on Foldit. Foldit comes out of the lab of a bbgm favorite, David Baker, right here at the University of Washington. Foldit combines gaming with protein structure prediction. It’s an interesting approach to spreading scientific problems. Folding@home built upon the success of Seti@home and the geek cred of running on gaming consoles and has built quite a following. Will Foldit, which presents a simple, fun interface to get people interested in protein structure (and the existence of Folding@home makes this somewhat familiar to geeks everywhere) be an example of how we can leverage crowdsourcing? Andrew makes some interesting points (which I agree with) on weightin... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432559 Fri, 09 May 2008 20:17:11 +0100 1432559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1432541&cid=t_181753_132_f&fid=35021&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FYourBonesGotALittleMachine%2F%7E3%2F286440409%2F David Baker’s lab and friends, have recently released a new ‘experiment’ in protein folding called FoldIt. Essentially, individuals or teams can compete online to manually fold protein structures, guided by the internal energy function within the game (it very likely uses code from the impressive ab initio folding software Rosetta under the hood). The interface is designed as a game to make it accessible to everyone, not just experts in protein folding. While it’s pretty simplified compared with your average molecular structure editing software, I think designers of scientific software (often scientists themselves) should take note; a good clean interface can really assist getting a specific job done painlessly. I haven’t played enough with it yet, but I get t... Your bones got a little machine. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432541 Thu, 08 May 2008 23:57:17 +0100 1432541 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1147440&cid=t_181753_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fprotein-foldinghome.html Folding@Home saysWhat is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1147440 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:43:00 +0100 1147440 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676132&cid=t_181753_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F123401515%2F Interesting post by Tim O’Reilly where he points to a fierce debate on the “multicore crisis”. This reminds me of an earlier post at bbgm where Jack Dongarra placed the ball squarely in the software court. Parallel computing geeks will find the arguments fascinating. I know only a teeny weeny bit about the gory details of parallel programming, but while I am not sure we are faced with a crisis, experience tells me that we are going to run into some serious issues that need to be resolved soon. If we are to take proper advantage of the computational resources available to it today, the software must catch up. The MapReduce’s and Folding@home’s of the world are the exception. Further reading:80 cores?Supercomputing 2006“Accelerated Computing” - The ... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676132 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:34:59 +0100 676132