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Fast Company
May 2010
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How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger IBM's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research.   |
Fast Company
May 2010 |
Worldwide Community Grid: How It Works How the shared-computer network that is helping scientists find cures for cancer connects users and crunches data. |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Hayley Birch |
Special Report: Health breakthroughs of the decade New discoveries have been made with cancer vaccines, genomics, statin drugs, allosteric modulators, and RNA interference during the last decade. |
Bio-IT World
November 12, 2002
Michael Goldman |
A Virtual Pharmacopeia Computational modeling of disease pathways, organs --- even patients --- could transform drug discovery. Does salvation exist in silico? |
Wired
August 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2003
Malorye Branca |
Targeting Tumors Next-generation cancer drugs will take aim with unprecedented certainty, but making them requires a new discovery and development paradigm. |
Bio-IT World
April 15, 2003
Malorye Branca |
Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease? |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
The Biggest Grid Yet The World Community Grid seeks to link 10 million or more volunteer computers together through freely downloadable peer-to-peer networking software. |
InternetNews
June 17, 2010
Andy Patrizio |
IBM and Idle PCs Help Find Anti-Cancer Drugs Distributed computing can break up a massive task into manageable chunks in certain situations. Is it right for your company? |
Bio-IT World
April 15, 2003
Mark D. Uehling |
Target Elimination Industry and FDA scientists turn to databases, applications software, and laboratory chips to move the safest, most effective molecules into clinical trials. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Gagliardi & Grey |
Old World, New Grid CERN's massive parallel processing system is expanding from particle physics to everything else, and from Europe to everywhere else. The initiative, funded by the European Union, is called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). |
Industrial Physicist
Jennifer Ouellette |
Bioinformatics moves into the mainstream An explosion of data is being tamed with new systems |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003
Kaufman et al. |
Forum: Grid computing made simple Grid computing enables the use and pooling of computer and data resources to solve complex mathematical problems. The technique is the latest development in an evolution that earlier brought forth such advances as distributed computing, the Worldwide Web, and collaborative computing. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Malorye Branca |
The Proteomics Odyssey Efforts to map the constellation of protein interactions in humans gather momentum as companies vie to provide tools to capitalize on the potential of proteomics. But can proteomics prevail where some feel genomics has failed? |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2011
Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck |
From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 30, 2007 |
Tomorrow's Drugs A look at the seven top therapies and technologies vying to deliver the next generation of drugs. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Courtney McCarty |
Save the World with Your Screensaver Anybody would like to cure cancer or AIDS or solve the world's most complex problems. With the help of your computer, you can contribute to efforts to solve these enduring puzzles. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Salvatore Salamone |
Think Blue ... Again: It's in the Genes IBM has big plans for a new petaflop supercomputer -- Blue Gene -- designed primarily for the life sciences. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Hillel Alpert |
Bio-IT Shines Bright in Israel Companies such as Quark and Pharmos are still flourishing as other industries decline in this country torn by conflict. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Future Cures Almost every disease known to man is under constant research and we can hardly go a day without hearing about some advancement or another. Here are a few diseases for which future cures could be looming on the horizon. |
Wired
Thomas Goetz |
Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer By getting regular blood tests, doctors may be able to diagnose cancer early, giving the patient a 90 percent chance of survival. |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Your computer can fight AIDS A PC can do more in its spare time than look for aliens. It can also save lives. Even while you're reading this Web page, you could be researching new AIDS treatments, or rather, your computer could... |
InternetNews
November 16, 2004
Paul Shread |
IBM Launches Public Grid Computing Project IBM hopes to give a boost to large-scale public computing projects - and its own commercial grid vision - with the launch of the new 'World Community Grid.' |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
Ron Feemster |
The PharmExec 2005 Pipeline Report Dry? Not quite. Instead of 1990s-style blockbusters, pharma's new molecules are niche drugs, cancer treatments and -- at last -- innovative mechanisms for troublesome targets: Acomplia [rimonabant] by Sanofi-Aventis... AMG 162 [denosumab] by Amgen... etc. |
Bio-IT World
July 11, 2002
Malorye Branca |
Deep Sequence Diving Like sailors of old, genomic data miners dream of discovering riches and fame. Given the recent improvements in analytics -- and a little more time -- they just might succeed. |
Bio-IT World
November 14, 2003
Jeff Augen |
Making Information-Based Medicine Work A confluence of scientific discovery and high-throughput technology has made information-based medicine possible -- and imperative. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Tom Randall |
Cocktails Are Next For Cancer-Drug Makers Taking a cue from the cocktails of drugs that have made AIDS survivable, drugmakers are pursuing combination therapies against cancer. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
John Carey |
Barring The Door Against AIDS A new generation of drugs focuses on keeping the virus from entering cells. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
Alana Klein |
Thought Leader: A Q&A with Graham Allaway While researchers continue to hunt for new AIDS drugs, Graham Allaway, chief operating officer of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, is focusing on developing a treatment for patients failing therapy due to resistance. |
Bio-IT World
March 2006
Mike May |
The Evolving Grid Computing System at J&J Johnson & Johnson is planning to double the size of its grid computing network and the number of applications that run on it by the end of this year, according to company executives. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2010
Walter Armstrong |
The Next Wave: Pharm Exec's 2011 Pipeline Report 42 of the best new drugs in development or parked at the FDA |
BusinessWeek
September 12, 2005
John Carey |
A Better Way To Ambush AIDS? HIV increasingly outwits today's drugs even as side effects take a toll. But Panacos Pharmaceuticals' experimental drug opens the door to a new line of attack. |
Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Salvatore Salamone |
Made in Manhattan A talk with the new head of the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. |
Chemistry World
December 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline I've worked on two drug discovery efforts (one right after the other, as fate would have it) whose final compounds differed by essentially one methyl group from the starting points of each project. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Pettypiece & Gibson |
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer." |
Bio-IT World
April 16, 2004 |
Portraits in Proteomics Advances in identifying protein biomarkers are spurring new hope in cancer diagnostics, expediting detection and easing testing. |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Eric Berkman |
Power Pool Distributed processing gets an updated look as vendors go for the grid... |
Bio-IT World
September 2006
John Russell |
IBM Races H5N1 Unlike most (perhaps all) of its IT brethren, IBM has the size and breadth of technology expertise to make waves in basic research beyond IT and to tackle global projects that enable Big Blue to do well by doing good. The Global Pandemic Initiative is a perfect example of that capacity. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2008 |
The other half of an HIV mystery is solved When HIV infects a human immune cell, which of the cell's own genes play a role? |
Bio-IT World
September 11, 2003
Mark D. Uehling |
Fishing Chips The next generation of protein microarrays from the likes of Protometrix and Molecular Staging may threaten the early leads of Biacore and Ciphergen -- and work so well that drug companies won't want them. |
Bio-IT World
May 19, 2004 |
Special Delivery TAT tagging has aroused keen interest in biotech. |
Wired
April 2001
David Ewing Duncan |
The Protein Hunters Step One: Crack the genome. Step Two: Unlock the molecular structure of amino acids. Step Three: Get ready for the robo-fast, custom-drug future... |
CFO
November 17, 2003
Peter Krass |
Grid Computing The same technology being used to search of life in outer space could soon help your company save serious time and money. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Curtailing the Cancerous Cell The highly touted drug Gleevec unleashed new hope in the battle against cancer. Now a group of new drugs, working on the same principle, are showing even greater promise in treating leukemia. |
New Architect
April 2002
Jay Lyman |
Girding for the Grid When a computing project demands greater processing resources than are available locally, the grid lets remote machines lend their CPU and storage to the task, across a network... |
Wired
July 2001
Oliver Morton |
Gene Machine IBM took a dare: Build a supercomputer that predicts the invisible process of protein folding. Spend $100 million, increase processing speed 100-fold, and revolutionize the field. Then convince the biologists it matters... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
New Cancer Therapies As cancer research explodes, the availability of new and innovative interventions is expanding almost daily. |
Bio-IT World
October 10, 2003
Jeffrey Skolnick |
Protein Structure Prediction in Drug Discovery Indications are that structure prediction can assist in the automated assignment of proteins to known pathways. |
Bio-IT World
July 11, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Counting the Cost of Drug Discovery Much of the trouble ensnaring the drug industry is blamed on the exorbitant cost of drug discovery. Tangible proof that the bio-IT revolution will economize drug discovery is emerging, but there is still a long way to go. |
