| Protein origami: Quick folders are the best Jan 31st 2013, 13:44 The evolutionary history of proteins shows that protein folding is an important factor. Especially the speed of protein folding plays a key role. This was the result of computer analysis. For almost four billions of years, there has been a trend towards faster folding. | | Checking out open access Jan 30th 2013, 20:29 From Wikipedia to shareware, the Internet has made information and software more widely available than ever. At the heart of this explosion is the simple idea that information should be open and free for anyone. Yet with publishers charging exorbitant fees for subscriptions to academic journals, university libraries are struggling to keep up. | | Fast, low-cost device uses the cloud to speed up diagnostic testing for HIV and more Jan 24th 2013, 21:33 Biomedical engineering professors have taken their innovative lab-on-a-chip and developed a way to not only check a patient's HIV status anywhere in the world with just a finger prick, but also synchronize the results automatically and instantaneously with central health-care records -- 10 times faster than the benchtop ELISA. | | False beliefs persist, even after instant online corrections Jan 24th 2013, 14:23 It seems like a great idea: Provide instant corrections to web-surfers when they run across obviously false information on the Internet. But a new study suggests that this type of tool may not be a panacea for dispelling inaccurate beliefs, particularly among people who already want to believe the falsehood. | |