6 projects of "artificial intelligence" in the College of Engineering at UAEU
The College of Engineering at UAEU has announced the establishment of 6 major academic projects for artificial intelligence that include: “Fab Lab”, “Educational factories”, the creation of a Major “Robotics labs” for artificial intelligence, “huge database and library resources for materials”, and “applications lab” »
These projects constitute the initiatives of the UAEU in artificial intelligence, as it constantly works to encourage research projects for graduate students, and to launch a set of studies programs in the field of artificial intelligence, including the specialized scientific program.
A new research complex for the design and manufacture of small satellites
Dr. Khaled Al Hashemi, Director of the National Centre for Space Science and Technology at UAEU, revealed that the center is currently working on establishing a new research complex to design and manufacture small satellites weighing up to 250 kilograms, and to establish a ground station to receive information and satellite images from the satellites, in order to be analyzed and studied at the center.
For his part, Al Hashemi pointed out that qualified staff are currently available to work in both the research complex and the station and to train new cadres, so that they can perform the required tasks, foremost of which will be work on designing and manufacturing a cubic satellite concerned with investigating site accuracy.
UAEU Researchers and New York- Abu Dhabi Release New Date Palm Genome Sequence
The UAEU Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, have developed an improved assembly of the genome for the date palm using long-read sequencing technology. This improvement over the current versions of the genome will help advance further research, and inform the propagation practices of this essential MENA region food source
In addition, the researchers have identified the genes and mutations that lead to color change and the levels of major sugars in date palm fruit, including the genes for the enzyme invertase that breaks down sucrose into glucose and fructose. While date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) are, one of the earliest .domesticated tree crops in the world and remain a major fruit crop in North Africa and the Middle East
A UAEU team is developing a new treatment for Alzheimer's
A research team from the chemistry department at UAEU has started a project to develop a new treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The team is headed by Dr. Abdul Wahid Al-Samadi, a specialist researcher in the field of pharmaceutical industry to treat Alzheimer's disease, he is assisted by Dr. Rakesh Rajakopalan, and group of female students; Sheikha Al-Rahbi, Mayar Alaa and Afra Saif.
For his turn, Dr. Abdul Wahid Al-Samadi says: Alzheimer's is a complicated disease that is unknown until now, and all drugs discovered so far are limited to acting as an inhibitor of a specific enzyme called acetylcholine, and this alone is not enough, and from this perspective I have participated with a research .team of the Institute of Chemistry Membership in Madrid , Spain to develop a strategy to search for new drugs, and we reached a new substance that gave good results compared to the drugs available on the market, we called it "multi-goals drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease"