Research Explores Addiction As Computational Process
A University of Minnesota researcher developed a computational model of addiction which can be used to make predictions about human behavior, animal behavior, and neurophysiology.

Computational Tool Predicts How Drugs Work In Cells, Advancing Efforts To Design Better Medicines
Using computational tool, drug developers can design compounds that will act on only desired gene and protein targets, eliciting therapeutic responses free of unwanted side effects.

New Teams Join Network To Model Pandemic Flu, Other Infectious Outbreaks
Four new scientific teams joined an international research network developing computer-based simulations of pandemic flu and other infectious disease outbreaks...

The Math Of Deadly Waves
Mathematics has a role to play in washing away misconceptions and myths about these deadly waves -- and potentially saving lives, says mathematical analyst.

Delft Mathematician Enhances Protectiveness Of Military Uniform
Delft researcher believes that within a few years it will be possible to calculate a realistic model of the human body with protective clothing...

New Math Model Finds That The Cochlea's Spiral Shape Enhances Low Frequencies
It was once thought that the spiral shape of the cochlea had no effect on how it functions. Recently, a mathematical model shows that its shape acts to enhance the low frequency sounds that we use to communicate with one another.

Simple explanation for complex pattern of feather development
Biologists tested a mathematical model of the mechanism birds use to control the growth of complex feathers.

Mathematical models have given physicists a new look at DNA's chemical counterpart, RNA
The models -- showing that RNA behaves differently depending on the temperature of its environment -- may help biologists better understand how life evolved on Earth.

New Program Aims To Model Immune Responses And Key Infectious Diseases
New program to understand the complex biochemical networks that regulate the interactions between infectious organisms and the human or animal cells they infect...

Mathematics Is Biology's Next Microscope, Only Better; Biology Is Mathematics' Next Physics, Only Better
Although mathematics has long been intertwined with the biological sciences, an explosive synergy between biology and mathematics seems poised to enrich and extend both fields greatly in the coming decades...