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Interdisciplinarity is a polysemous concept with multiple, reasoned and intuitive, interpretations across scholars and policy-makers. Historically, quantifying the interdisciplinarity of research has been challenging due to the variety of methods used to identify metadata, taxonomies, and mathematical formulas...
“We are trying to change the way research is done on a daily basis in biology,” saidJasmin Fisher, a biologist by training who works in theprogramming principles and toolsgroup in Microsoft’s Cambridge, U.K., lab. One team of researchers is using machine learning and natural language pro...
“We built a database that says, ‘Here are all of the different cells that the mRNA could be delivered to, and here are all of their microRNA signatures,’ and then we use computational tools andmachine learningto differentiate the cells,” Becraft explains. “For instance, I need to m...
There are other reasons that LSA faculty wanted their students to learn programming, but I left out of the essay one other key reason to learn programming that LSA faculty talked to us about: To become a “conversational programmer.”. Some students take programming courses because they want to...
Scientists have known for decades that bacteria use the T6SS to snuff out their non-kin neighbors, or strangers that are invading their territory. But no one imagined that it’s used to kill their siblings, saidBonnie Bassler, a Princeton University molecular biologist and an early pioneer of...
interactions,” said study lead author Qun Liu, a structural biologist at Brookhaven Lab. “If we can find inhibitors, then the virus won’t cause nearly as much damage. That may give people with compromised health a much better chance for their immune systems to fight the virus successfully...
from 2021, showed that the baseline average human performance was close to 50:50 (i.e., a simple coin flip) on whether a presented face was believed to be real or fake. With the expected technological improvement, it is likely to become increasingly difficult to distinguish between reality-...
organisms are much more abundant than multicellular organisms, and have been around for at least an additional 2 billion years," said lead study author Eric Libby, a mathematical biologist at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. "So what is the advantage to being multicellular and staying ...
with subject-matter experts. This activity will allow you to draft a high-quality impactful grant. For example, if a pathologist is drafting a grant on diagnosing breast cancer using artificial intelligence, then collaborating with an expert computational biologist will improve the chances of funding...