by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 5, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Bridges-2 Powers “Digital Twin,” Allowing Rapid Simulated Testing of Neurons The movement of signals and nutrients down a nerve cell’s long axon is central to healthy thought and movement, and to some neurodegenerative diseases. A digital twin, a virtual nerve cell...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 2, 2026 | Collaborations, HuBMAP, News, Press release
HuBMAP Data Portal, Announced in Paper in Prestigious Nature Communications, Links Over 9,000 Data Sets for Investigations of Human Body in 3D, and Scales from Organs to Cells A team of scientists has announced the latest version of the HuBMAP Data Portal, a data...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 22, 2026 | Anniversary, Science Highlights
Massive Memory of PSC’s Blacklight Helped CMU Team Plan Optimal Chain of Recipients, Donors Only a fraction of the patients awaiting organ transplants match with a donor each year. In 2015, a team from CMU used PSC’s Blacklight supercomputer to show CORE, the national...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 15, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Weighting for Uncertainty Helps Pitt Team Factor for Individual Patients, not just Populations While AI offers the ability to improve human experts’ ability to diagnose and treat diseases like breast cancer, well-publicized errors across the broader AI field are cause...
by Ken Chiacchia | Oct 6, 2026 | Bridges-2, News, Press release
Top to bottom: Maps of the Milky Way galaxy based on low-energy radio waves, visible light, high-energy gamma rays, and the Nobel-Prize-recognized map based on neutrino emissions. PSC user Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize for Physics! The Nobel...
