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Social network analysis privacy tackled Posted: 14 Feb 2015 03:45 PM PST Protecting people's privacy in an age of online big data is difficult, but doing so when using visual representations of such things as social network data may present unique challenges, according to a computer scientist.

Formula for predicting innovation Posted: 14 Feb 2015 03:45 PM PST Researchers are developing a mathematical technique to predict the emergence of scientific innovation, based on research citations and historical analysis.

World’s first compact rotary 3-D printer-cum-scanner Posted: 14 Feb 2015 03:42 PM PST The the world’s first compact 3-D printer that can also scan items into digitized models. will be delivered to the United States in March. This user-friendly device allows users without much knowledge of 3-D software to scan any item, then edit the digitized model on the computer and print it out in 3-D.

Structure-based design used as tool for engineering deimmunized biotherapeutics Posted: 14 Feb 2015 06:24 AM PST In the first experimental use of algorithms that employ structure-based molecular modeling to optimize deimmunized drug candidates, researchers complement their prior sequence-based deimmunizing algorithms and expand the tool kit of protein engineering technologies to use in next generation drug development.

Systems to identify treatment targets for cancer and rare diseases Posted: 13 Feb 2015 07:47 AM PST In recent months, several national initiatives for personalized medicine have been announced, including the recently launched precision medicine initiative in the US, driven by rapid advances in genomic technologies and with the promise of cheaper and better healthcare. Significant challenges remain, however, in the management and analysis of genetic information and their integration with patient data.