biomimicry

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Using biomimicry to detect outbreaks faster

April 9, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Our immune systems are made up of billions of white blood cells searching for signs of infections and foreign invaders, ready to raise the alarm. Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists Pat Finley and Drew Levin have been working to improve the U.S. biosurveillance system that alerts authorities...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Computing

Topics: academic alliance, biomimicry, biosurveillance, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, computer modeling and simulation, deep learning, immune system, influenza, machine learning, University of New Mexico, Zika

Pat Finley, Drew Levin, and Melanie Moses sit in an emergency room, looking at a laptop.

Sandia storing information securely in DNA

July 11, 2016 • Sandia researchers explore a biologically inspired information storage system ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider generate 15 million gigabytes of data per year. That is a lot of digital data to inscribe on hard drives or beam up to the “cloud.” George Bachand, a Sandia National Laboratories...

Categories: Biology, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: basic research, Biology, biomimicry, Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, DNA, encryption, fundamental science, information storage, LDRD, nanotechnology