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Team identifies gene involved with fracture healing

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New identification of a gene involved in the fracture healing process could lead to the development of new therapeutic treatments for difficult-to-heal injuries.

Journal: Bone

SLAC's New Computer Science Division Teams with Stanford to Tackle Data Onslaught

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Alex Aiken, director of the new Computer Science Division at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been thinking a great deal about the coming challenges of exascale computing, defined as a billion billion calculations per second. That's a thousand times faster than any computer today. Reaching this milestone is such a big challenge that it's expected to take until the mid-2020s and require entirely new approaches to programming, data management and analysis, and numerous other aspects of computing.

Cuing environmental responses in fungi

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sensory perception lies at the heart of adaptation to changing conditions, and helps fungi to improve growth and recycle organic waste, and to know when and how to infect a plant or animal host. New results from a team led by DOE Joint Genome Institute researchers based on characterizing and then conducting a comparative analysis of two genome sequences published in Current Biology shed new light on the evolution of sensory perception in fungi.

Journal: Current Biology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Radiation 101: DoseNet delivers environmental data as an educational tool

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A network of radiation-monitoring devices and a companion website and open-source code serve as educational and outreach tools for an international project called DoseNet that stretches from Northern California classrooms to a city hall in Japan. Its broad aim is to inform and connect students and communities using science and data as common ground.

Caught on camera: First movies of droplets getting blown up by X-ray laser

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers have made the first microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by the world's brightest X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The new data could lead to better and novel experiments at X-ray lasers, whose extremely bright, fast flashes of light take atomic-level snapshots of some of nature's speediest processes.

A rallying call for microbiome science national data management

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a paper published online May 16, 2016, in Trends in Microbiology, researchers from the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute call for the formation of a National Microbiome Data Center to efficiently manage the datasets accumulated globally. By integrating and harnessing all available microbiome data and metadata, researchers could conduct larger-scale comparative analyses in order to address global challenges related to energy, environment, health and agriculture.

Journal: Trends in Microbiology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Berkeley Lab's OpenMSI licensed to ImaBiotech

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Two years ago, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers developed OpenMSI--the most advanced computational tool for analyzing and visualizing mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) data. Last year, this web-available tool was selected as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of the year by R&D Magazine. Now, OpenMSI has been licensed to support ImaBiotech's Multimaging™ technology in the field of pharmaceutical and cosmetic research and development.

New research could personalize medicine for arthritis patients

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Recently, a team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Davis, University of California, Merced and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals examined the whole-joint gene expression by RNA sequencing at one day, one, six and 12 weeks after injury. The team used a new, non-invasive tibial compression mouse model of PTOA, that mimics ACL rupture in humans from a single high-impact injury.

Journal: Journal of Orthopaedic Research®

New Berkeley Lab study tallies environmental and public health benefits of solar power

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Solar power could deliver $400 billion in environmental and public health benefits throughout the United States by 2050, according to a study from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Funder: US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative

Q&A: Hitomi researchers talk about the X-ray satellite's tragic end and the data it sent home

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In this Q&A, three researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a joint institute of Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, explain the circumstances of Hitomi's tragic accident and express their hopes for future X-ray satellite missions.