Biology

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Connecting the neurodots

The human brain contains a vast expanse of unmapped territory. An adult brain measures only about 1,300 cubic centimeters —… Read More

December 3, 2024

Pandemic preparedness

During the pandemic turmoil, Margaret Cheung reconsidered her career. At the University of Houston, she was approaching the physics of… Read More

October 16, 2024

Under life’s hood

The Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University’s medical college in New York City, needs help from… Read More

May 30, 2024

Not-so-plain sight

Scientists and companies invest years and fortunes searching for new medicines. Many discoveries might already exist but remain hidden in… Read More

June 21, 2023

Computing function from form

Over the past two years, artificial intelligence has shown it can predict what many cellular components look like. For instance,… Read More

January 4, 2023

Scaling cancer

Like falling dominos, the cascading processes that control how our body’s cells divide, grow and eventually die usually go as… Read More

September 6, 2022

Bargain proteins

Devising a drug to treat a disease isn’t easy. It means screening hundreds of thousands of compounds, testing a small… Read More

May 17, 2022

Protein shakeup

In the old days of cell biology, scientists knew the atomic structures of few membrane proteins. Now, amid the so-called… Read More

December 1, 2021

DNA repair 2.0

The DNA in every human cell gets damaged tens of thousands of times every day. A nucleotide – one of… Read More

August 4, 2021

Countering COVID

As the COVID-19 pandemic began taking hold in early 2020, Jeremy Smith of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the… Read More

May 19, 2021