A mathematical model predicts that competition among mobile genetic elements can lead to low-cost host-benefiting defenses or ...

Mathematics may hold unexpected clues to understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have developed a model showing how ...

The careful modeling, analysis, and simulation of living systems using the tools of applied mathematics have led to novel biological insights. Our faculty develop mathematical models and perform ...

A new perspective argues that a rich class of probability models known as Markov modulated models could transform how ...

One of the most enduring, basic questions of life is: How does it happen? For instance, in human development, how do cells self-organize into skin, muscles or bones? How do they form a brain, a finger ...

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry—but it's also an amazing math problem. At least, that's how Varun Varanasi viewed it when he was a Yale ...

3:00 – 4:30 PM: Career Panel with speakers from industry, government and academia, moderated by Indra Gonzalez Ojeda, PhD student in Biophysics, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Center for ...

Every day, your body replaces billions of cells – and yet, your tissues stay perfectly organized. How is that possible? A team of researchers at ChristianaCare’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. CSHL Associate Professor David McCandlish ...