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Virtual patients could alter clinical trials – and be easy to recruit

Computer-simulated patients have gotten closer to the real thing in terms of providing accurate models of how human tissues and organs act under certain circumstances. With groups at Rensselaer

Pharma hacker gets jail sentence in NJ

Here's a story that might give members of pharmaceutical company IT groups the jitters. After pleading guilty to crimes stemming from hacking into his former employer Shionogi's computer system,

U. Cal professor recruits computer whizzes for war on cancer

If David Patterson has his way, legions of computer scientists like him will rise up and join the battle against cancer. In an essay for The New York Times published Dec. 5, Patterson, a professor of...

A computerized blueprint for starving cancer

Cancer has a way of corrupting molecules involved in metabolism for its killer cause. Now a group of researchers has developed what they say is the first genome-scale computer model of cancer cell

Biomolecular computer shows promise in detecting disease

There's more progress in developing devices that use of biological molecules to compute information in our bodies to diagnose disease and release drugs. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of