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Nearly 800 million people worldwide depend on cassava for survival -- but this critical food source is under attack by entirely preventable viruses, says computational biologist and TED Senior Fellow Laura Boykin. She takes us to the farms in East Africa where she's working with a diverse team...
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 ...
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...
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-...
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...
To analyze the results, the team collaborated with Ucar, a professor and computational biologist at JAX . Together, the scientists found that more than 5,000 genes, or nearly a third of all the genes expressed by healthy islet cells, change their expression in response to ER stress or cytoki...
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...