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Quantum research breakthrough uses synthetic dimensions to efficiently process quantum information

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new study opens the door to cutting-edge solutions that could contribute to the realization of a system capable of processing quantum information in a simple yet powerful way. This control makes it possible to improve the detection and number of photon coincidences, as well as the efficiency of the system.

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Martian meteorites deliver a trove of information on Red Planet's structure

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 31, 2024

These results are important for understanding not only how Mars formed and evolved, but also for providing precise data that can inform recent NASA missions like Insight and Perseverance and the Mars Sample Return.

Parents Feel They Are Lacking Information About Bird Flu

Drugs.com

MARCH 14, 2025

FRIDAY, March 14, 2025 -- Only 43 percent of parents report they are able to find accurate and current information on avian influenza A(H5N1), commonly known as bird flu, according to the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

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Fossil of huge terror bird offers new information about wildlife in South America 12 million years ago

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about animal life in northern South America millions of years ago.

System to auto-detect new variants will inform better response to future infectious disease outbreaks

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 1, 2025

Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans -- including those causing flu, COVID, whooping cough and tuberculosis.

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Vault Snack #21 – Managing Sample Inventory Information in CDD Vault

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Vault Snack #21 – Managing Sample Inventory Information in CDD Vault

SAIAME: Semi‐Parameter Adaptation Information‐Assisted Multi‐Objective Evolutionary for Protein‐Ligand Docking

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

APRIL 2, 2025

To this end, a semi-parameter adaptation information-assisted multi-objective evolution method named SAIAME is proposed for protein-ligand docking optimization. However, the difficulties of high ligand connectivity and dimensionality reduce the search ability of the conformational sampling.

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Researchers identify new coding mechanism that transfers information from perception to memory

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 2, 2024

How the brain encodes this information has long puzzled neuroscientists. Our memories are rich in detail: we can vividly recall the color of our home, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favorite cafe.

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Information Flow In Growing Organizations: A Framework For Results

LifeSciVC

MAY 21, 2025

By Ankit Mahadevia, former CEO of Spero Therapeutics and Atlas alumni, as part of the From The Trenches of LifeSciVC I recently read Yuval Noah Hariris Nexus ; what stuck with me was how a society uses information to create shared meaning can have a profound impact on peoples experiences.

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Researchers demonstrate secure information transfer using spatial correlations in quantum entangled beams of light

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 5, 2023

Researchers have demonstrated the principle of using spatial correlations in quantum entangled beams of light to encode information and enable its secure transmission.

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Magnetic switch traps quantum information carriers in one dimension

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A quantum 'miracle material' could support magnetic switching, a team of researchers has shown.

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Live from the brain: Visual cues inform decision to cooperate

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By combining behavioral and wireless eye tracking and neural monitoring, a team of scientists studied how pairs of freely moving macaques interacting in a naturalistic setting use visual cues to guide complex, cooperative behavior.

New information on the most important early stage of embryonic development

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A new discovery by researchers challenges our current understanding of gastrulation, the most important stage of early embryonic development.

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Are You Using Next-Gen Sequencing to inform AAV product and process quality? Here are 4 reasons you should

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Next-generation sequencing allows for critical insights into gene therapy products, which can help streamline and accelerate everything from process development and production to regulatory approval.

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Impact of oft-overlooked cell in brain function revealed

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 15, 2025

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research.

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Drug Discovery Informatics for Big Pharma: Key Webinar Insights

Collaborative Drug

MARCH 21, 2025

This blog post summarizes the critical insights shared during this informative session. Dimitris Agrafiotis to discuss the current state and future directions of drug discovery informatics in large pharmaceutical organizations led by CDD's Founder and CEO, Dr. Barry Bunin.

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Astronomers take a second look at twin star systems

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 14, 2025

The study's authors found that certain orientations of twin star systems may provide critical information about planet formation, while also being easier for astronomers to discover planets within the systems.

Why speed and clinical accuracy of information and data is critical for physicians

Fierce BioTech

APRIL 7, 2025

Why speed and clinical accuracy of information and data is critical for physicians Learn how speed and accuracy of clinical information is transforming healthcare delivery and how your brand can become part of these high-value clinical conversations at the point of decision-making. Download now.

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Cracking the code of life: new AI model learns DNA's hidden language

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 5, 2024

With GROVER, a new large language model trained on human DNA, researchers could now attempt to decode the complex information hidden in our genome. GROVER treats human DNA as a text, learning its rules and context to draw functional information about the DNA sequences.

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The megadroughts are upon us

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

This publicly available forty-year global quantitative inventory seeks to inform policy regarding the environmental impact of human-induced climate change. Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a new study. It also detected previously 'overlooked' events.

Landmark experiment sheds new light on the origins of consciousness

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 30, 2025

An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT). The findings mark a pivotal moment in the goal to understand the elusive origins consciousness.

Studies uncover the critical role of sleep in the formation of memories

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 13, 2024

A lack of sleep can make it extraordinarily difficult to retain information. Two new studies uncover why this is and what is happening inside the brain during sleep and sleep deprivation to help or harm the formation of memories.

Scientists unveil complete cell map of a whole mammalian brain

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This atlas serves as a map for the mouse brain, describing the type, location, and molecular information of more than 32 million cells and providing information on connectivity between these cells. Researchers have created a complete cell atlas of a whole mammalian brain.

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Breakthrough in molecular control: New bioinspired double helix with switchable chirality

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 8, 2024

In a new study, researchers have developed novel double-helical monometallofoldamers that exhibit controllable helicity inversion and chiral information transfer, in response to external stimuli.

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CDD Vault Update (September 2024)

Collaborative Drug

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Chemical Safety Information: When working in a lab, you must understand the risks associated with handling chemicals. CDD Vault now displays safety information obtained from PubChem as a helpful reminder. If available, you will find hazard pictograms next to the name at the top of the molecule page.

Study explains why the brain can robustly recognize images, even without color

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 23, 2024

The researchers found evidence that early in life, when the retina is unable to process color information, the brain learns to distinguish objects based on luminance, rather than color. New research offers a possible explanation for how the brain learns to identify both color and black-and-white images.

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Cells of the future: A key to reprogramming cell identities

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The intricate process of duplicating genetic information, referred to as DNA replication, lies at the heart of the transmission of life from one cell to another and from one organism to the next. This happens by not just simply copying the genetic information; a well-orchestrated sequence of molecular events has to happen at the right time.

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Workings of working memory detailed

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 17, 2024

Investigators have discovered how brain cells responsible for working memory--the type required to remember a phone number long enough to dial it--coordinate intentional focus and short-term storage of information.

Athletes have significantly better working memory than sedentary people

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recently published meta-analysis reveals an advantage in sports-related information processing compared to non-athletes. The data consisted of 21 studies involving a total of 1455 participants. Athletes had better working memory than non-athletes and this advantage was further enhanced when athletes were compared to sedentary people.

Method identified to double computer processing speeds

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This system doubles computer processing speeds with existing hardware by simultaneously using graphics processing units (GPUs), hardware accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), or digital signal processing units to process information.

Researchers combine holograms and AI to create uncrackable optical encryption system

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Researchers developed a new optical system that uses holograms to encode information, creating a level of encryption that traditional methods cannot penetrate.

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Nature and plastics inspire breakthrough in soft sustainable materials

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to store energy or record digital information.

Gravitational waves unveil previously unseen properties of neutron stars

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A new study details how new insights into how dissipative tidal forces within double -- or binary -- neutron star systems will inform our understanding of the universe.

Storm in a laser beam: Physicists create 'light hurricanes' that could transport huge amounts of data

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The discovery, centred around controlling tiny hurricanes of light and electromagnetic fields, could revolutionise how much information we can deliver over cables.

A simple quantum internet with significant possibilities

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 15, 2024

It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to physically show it's possible.

Cells may possess hidden communication system

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 24, 2024

A team of researchers suggests that cells possess a previously unknown information processing system that allows them to make rapid decisions independent of their genes. But how do cells swiftly adapt to these environmental fluctuations? A new study is answering that question by challenging our understanding of how cells function.

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Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 16, 2024

Researchers used generative AI to develop a physics-informed technique to classify phase transitions in materials or physical systems that is much more efficient than existing machine-learning approaches.

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Groundbreaking study uncovers how our brain learns

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 17, 2025

The findings depict how information is processed in our brain's circuitry, offering insights for neurological disorders and brain-like AI systems. How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold.

Quantum researchers cause controlled 'wobble' in the nucleus of a single atom

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The research offers prospects for storing quantum information inside the nucleus, where it is safe from external disturbances. They caused the atomic nucleus to interact with one of the electrons in the outermost shells of the atom. This electron could be manipulated and read out through the needle of a scanning tunneling microscope.

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Laser-based artificial neuron mimics nerve cell functions at lightning speed

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Researchers developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron, which could lead to new breakthroughs in advanced computing.

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Compact error correction: Towards a more efficient quantum 'hard drive'

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Two quantum information theorists have solved a decades-old problem that will free up quantum computing power.

Autobiographical memory in the digital age: Our lives in the mirror of our data

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. But what does this mean for the way we remember our lives and how we talk about them? Researchers are trying to find answers to these questions.

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Surprising behavior in one of the least studied mammals in the world

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Now, a new study reveals surprising information about the Baird's beaked whale species. Beaked whales are among the least studied mammals in the world.

Songbirds socialize on the wing during migration

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Evidence from over 18,300 hours of recorded flight calls suggests songbirds may 'talk' to other species as they migrate, forming social connections and -- just maybe -- exchanging information about the journey.

Quantum research breakthrough uses synthetic dimensions to efficiently process quantum information

Martian meteorites deliver a trove of information on Red Planet's structure

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Parents Feel They Are Lacking Information About Bird Flu

Fossil of huge terror bird offers new information about wildlife in South America 12 million years ago

System to auto-detect new variants will inform better response to future infectious disease outbreaks

Vault Snack #21 – Managing Sample Inventory Information in CDD Vault

SAIAME: Semi‐Parameter Adaptation Information‐Assisted Multi‐Objective Evolutionary for Protein‐Ligand Docking

Researchers identify new coding mechanism that transfers information from perception to memory

Information Flow In Growing Organizations: A Framework For Results

Researchers demonstrate secure information transfer using spatial correlations in quantum entangled beams of light

Magnetic switch traps quantum information carriers in one dimension

Live from the brain: Visual cues inform decision to cooperate

New information on the most important early stage of embryonic development

Are You Using Next-Gen Sequencing to inform AAV product and process quality? Here are 4 reasons you should

Impact of oft-overlooked cell in brain function revealed

Drug Discovery Informatics for Big Pharma: Key Webinar Insights

Astronomers take a second look at twin star systems

Why speed and clinical accuracy of information and data is critical for physicians

Cracking the code of life: new AI model learns DNA's hidden language

The megadroughts are upon us

Landmark experiment sheds new light on the origins of consciousness

Studies uncover the critical role of sleep in the formation of memories

Scientists unveil complete cell map of a whole mammalian brain

Breakthrough in molecular control: New bioinspired double helix with switchable chirality

CDD Vault Update (September 2024)

Study explains why the brain can robustly recognize images, even without color

Cells of the future: A key to reprogramming cell identities

Workings of working memory detailed

Athletes have significantly better working memory than sedentary people

Method identified to double computer processing speeds

Researchers combine holograms and AI to create uncrackable optical encryption system

Nature and plastics inspire breakthrough in soft sustainable materials

Gravitational waves unveil previously unseen properties of neutron stars

Storm in a laser beam: Physicists create 'light hurricanes' that could transport huge amounts of data

A simple quantum internet with significant possibilities

Cells may possess hidden communication system

Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics

Groundbreaking study uncovers how our brain learns

Quantum researchers cause controlled 'wobble' in the nucleus of a single atom

Laser-based artificial neuron mimics nerve cell functions at lightning speed

Compact error correction: Towards a more efficient quantum 'hard drive'

Autobiographical memory in the digital age: Our lives in the mirror of our data

Surprising behavior in one of the least studied mammals in the world

Songbirds socialize on the wing during migration

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