Science Highlights

ALL Flesh is Grass? Blacklight Helps Researchers Untangle Genome of Wheat Progenitor Wheat, a species of grass, provides more protein for human consumption—more flesh—than any other plant. Globally, we harvest 725 million metric tons of...

Putting Tools in the Right Hands PSC Workshops Transform Public Health in East Africa   In a series of workshops sponsored by the Mozambique Ministry of Health, PSC’s Public Health Applications Group and their colleagues at the Johns Hopkins School...

Teaching the Machine to See Blacklight "Trains" Video Search System for Competition Victory A good example that we live in the era of Big Data is that, as we’ve moved from super-8-film home movies to ever-present smartphones, we’ve all begun to...

Bridging the GAP Bridges Will Bring high performance Computing and Data Analysis Capabilities to New Fields  Today, investigators in important, data-intensive fields such as cancer genomics, the digital humanities and machine learning...

Janus Channel Anton Simulations Reveal How Pain, Epilepsy Drugs Work through Same Target Protein If you tried to imagine two neurological conditions as different from each other as possible, epilepsy and non-headache pain would be a good choice....

FutureMatch: Enabling Better Organ Exchange Programs  Over 123,000 adults and children currently await organ transplants. Unfortunately, only about 30,000 donor organs become available each year. Every day, roughly 20 people die waiting...

Lifeboat Africa Blacklight Helps Archeologists Study the Origins of Modern Human Behavior Picture an endangered species. Climate change has forced it into a small refuge. The population has crashed to thousands or fewer. Survival is by no...