Modeling has long played a key role in the drug discovery process, from isolating drug targets to screening and pharmacokinetics. Many pharmaceutical companies are currently facing patent expirations ...

Modeling the Dynamics of Life: New Frontiers in Biological Physics and Mechanics is a special Collection of the npj Biological Physics and Mechanics journal, dedicated to the development and ...

Modeling complex systems When studying complex biological systems such as the immune system, scientists can extract many different types of data. Sequencing cell genomes tells them which gene variants ...

Epigenetic aging clocks use DNA methylation patterns to measure biological age and predict health risks across human tissues.

A new study shows that machine learning techniques can offer powerful new tools for advancing personalized medicine, care that optimizes outcomes for individual patients based on unique aspects of ...

In the original hit TV series Lost in Space, a human-like machine called Robot would execute commands only if they made sense. Otherwise, it would flail its arms and exclaim, “That does not compute!” ...

The National Academies will convene a committee to organize a workshop on navigating the benefits and biosecurity risks of communicating studies involving the use of computational modeling and ...

MANILA, Philippines — Scientists often rely on mathematical models to understand how diseases develop and how biological ...

Biochemist John Carson uses The Virtual Cell to compare experimental and simulation results. Biologists are generating a vast amount of data on the molecular events that occur in the cell. Since a ...

Humans and animals detect different stimuli such as light, sound, and odor through nerve cells, which then transmit the information to the brain. Nerve cells must be able to adjust to the wide range ...