Electrical Charge of Vaccine Particles May Lead to Blood-Clot Side Effect

by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 23, 2022 | 2022 Science Highlights, COVID-19, News, Science Highlights

Electrical Charge of Vaccine Particles May Lead toBlood-clot side effect   Bridges-2 simulations suggest complication may stem from oppositely charged clot-forming protein sticking to engineered adenovirus Despite the lifesaving success of the COVID-19 vaccines,...

Hijacking of Pro-Vaccination Twitter Effort Is Focus of Bridges and Bridges-2 Analysis

by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 13, 2021 | 2021 Science Highlights, COVID-19, Science Highlights

Hijacking of Pro-Vaccination Twitter Effort Is Focus of Bridges and Bridges-2 Analysis Tweets reveal how superior organization, social media practice of anti-vaccine messages came to dominate event by health professionals by Ken Chiacchia A well-intentioned 2020...

Two-step Method Identifies Known Drugs Likely to Reduce Chance of Death from COVID-19

by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 13, 2021 | 2021 Science Highlights, COVID-19, Science Highlights, Spring-Summer 2021

A two-step method identifies known drugs likely to reduce chance of death from covid-19 Bridges helps identify meds for other conditions that associate with lower death rates in COVID-19 patients by Ken Chiacchia Both the ongoing treatment of COVID-19 and readiness...

PSC Systems Power DNA-Based Identification of Surface, Airborne Microbes Worldwide

by Ken Chiacchia | May 27, 2021 | 2021 Science Highlights, COVID-19, Science Highlights

psc systems power dna-based identification of surface, airborne microbes worldwide Samples from 60 cities reveal previously unknown microbes, diversity of antibiotic-resistance genes by Ken Chiacchia Dangerous microbes can emerge with little warning. Using PSC’s...

Rapid ID of Potential Anti-COVID-19 Agents Powered by Bridges-AI

by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 8, 2021 | 2021 Science Highlights, COVID-19, Spring-Summer 2021

Spring/Summer 2021 Rapid ID of Potential Anti-COVID-19 Agents Powered by Bridges-AI AI Identifies More Than 20,000 Compounds with Possible Anti-Virus Activity, Thousands of Times Faster than Earlier Methods by Ken Chiacchia The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that speed...

COVID-19 & Neutron-Star Science Using PSC Supercomputers Recognized in Separate 2020 HPCwire Awards

by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 16, 2020 | COVID-19, News, Press release

17th Annual HPCwire Awards Presented to Leaders in the Global HPC Community Artificial intelligence (AI) studies spanning from the tiny to the huge—from small molecules for fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus to the enormous forces between colliding neutron...