Dr Shapiro's team is interested in applications where direct processing of biological information is needed such as medicine.
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These tools, he says, will enable treatment systems that combine the constant monitoring of a patient's biological information and the infusing of targeted medicines.
If we were to add biological and genetic information to the equation along with recent statistical advances in forecasting predictions about reoffending would become significantly more accurate.
It was to help the UK to assess the risk of an attack using biological agents by providing important information about their likely dispersion in the open air during the Cold War.
Many parents who chose not to tell were concerned, she said, that they would be able to give relatively little information about the biological parent - as sperm donation is carried out on an anonymous basis.
Rudolf Jaenisch. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Science to Rudolph Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for improving our understanding of epigenetic regulation of gene expression, the biological mechanisms that affect how genetic information is variably expressed.
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With the increasing availability of machines that can peer into brains as they function, there has been rapid progress in understanding the biological mechanisms by which people transform information, such as from a golf lesson, first into actions and ultimately into automatic motor skills that don't require conscious thought to enact.
To make things more complicated, the act of perceiving this information changes it, putting biological consciousness at the center of the universe.
University of Pennsylvania bioethicist and msnbc.com contributor Art Caplan said there are times when you can share too much scientific information with nuclear weapons, biological weapons and the like despite the desire for open research.
MRI, first developed 30 years ago, is based on a well established scientific technique, nuclear magnetic resonance, which uses the interaction of magnetic fields with the spin of the nuclei of atoms to provide detailed information on the constituents of chemicals and biological materials.
Mr Mugabe last week sparked uproar by claiming the cholera outbreak was over in Zimbabwe, while Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said the outbreak was the result of biological warfare launched by former colonial power Britain against Zimbabwe.
Whitehall sources say that several new bits of information will emerge including evidence based on interviews with Iraqi scientists that biological weapons had been produced in quantity.
Hossam Amin, the former chief of Iraq's National Monitoring Directorate, may be able to provide information on the whereabouts of Iraq's suspected stocks of chemical and biological weapons or of ousted leader Saddam Hussein.
The most important data they will collect in the future is biometric information, which can be used to identify individuals through their unique physical and biological attributes.
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Perhaps hoping to mollify any hardening opinion, Iraq has sent the inspectors six letters including extra information (its officials say) to back up its claims to have destroyed chemical and biological weapons unilaterally after the last Gulf war.
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