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Computer simulations reveal roots of drug resistance

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New supercomputer simulations have revealed the role of transport proteins called efflux pumps in creating drug-resistance in bacteria, research that could lead to improving the drugs' effectiveness against life-threatening diseases and restoring the efficacy of defunct antibiotics.

Journal: Scientific Reports

Los Alamos research fundamental to first efficacy study for mosaic HIV-1 preventive vaccine

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Just in time for World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) international partners are announcing the first efficacy study for an investigational HIV-1-preventive 'mosaic' vaccine. Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson are joining forces with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and National Institutes of Health on this study, and they have enlisted the aid of top researchers worldwide to conduct the trial.

HADES creates alternate reality to mislead hackers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia researchers have created an alternative reality to mislead hackers, damaging the credibility of any information collected by cyberintruders.

Funder: DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Two Los Alamos scientists honored by AAAS

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Prominent researchers Angel E. Garcia and Laura Smilowitz of Los Alamos National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon Association members by their peers.

Infectious diseases: CTRL + ALT + delete

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Gene editing holds great promise for 'deleting' diseases from human bodies. Sandia National Laboratories is working to make this technology safer and to ensure that one day it can be delivered into humans without triggering adverse immune system reactions or causing other undesirable side effects.

Quantum dots amplify light with electrical pumping

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a breakthrough development, Los Alamos scientists have shown that they can successfully amplify light using electrically excited films of the chemically synthesized semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots.

Journal: Nature Materials

Eight Los Alamos innovations win R&D 100 Awards

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Eight Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies won R&D 100 Awards last week at R&D Magazine's annual ceremony in Orlando, Florida.

Scalable clusters make HPC R&D easy as Raspberry Pi

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive Raspberry Pi nodes.

Meeting: SC17

Diagnosing supercomputer problems

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

A team of computer scientists and engineers from Sandia National Laboratories and Boston University recently won the Gauss Award at the International Supercomputing conference for their paper about using machine learning to automatically diagnose problems in supercomputers.

New routes to renewables: Sandia speeds transformation of biofuel waste into wealth

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated faster, more efficient ways to turn discarded plant matter into chemicals worth billions.

Journal: Scientific Reports

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