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Mathematical models
Mathematical models are systems consisting of a set of equations used to describe a set of variables. Pie charts, tables, line graphs, chemical formulas, and diagrams are examples of mathematical models.
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Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan fo ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 03, 2015Genetics & Genomics
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Black-legged deer ticks are rapidly growing in number, expanding their range, and carrying pathogens into places where t ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 03, 2015Space & Astronomy
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When bats take wing looking for food, they're often at close quarters with one another, and a new study has determined h ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 26, 2015Cancer
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Suppose you dug a tunnel through the center of Earth, jumped in, and let gravity pull you through. How long would it tak ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 20, 2015Immunology
Culling vampire bat colonies to fight rabies in Latin America does little to slow the spread of the virus-and could even ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 11, 2015Cardiology
A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins cardiologist and biomedical engineer Hiroshi Ashikaga, MD, PhD, has developed ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 24, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists at Rice University have published new information about how motor proteins interact. Their study shows that w ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 25, 2014Microbiology
A major problem in today's medicine is the issue of "superbugs" or antibiotic resistant strains of many diseases. While ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 20, 2014Immunology
More than half of those diagnosed with HCV were infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants pr ...Written By: Judy O'Rourke
FEB 27, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Survival of the fittest has a generally positive connotation. After all, this evolutionary principle is the driving forc
...
FEB 22, 2016
Cancer
Active surveillance could be a viable alternative to surgery and radiation for some women with ductal carcinoma in situ,
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 11, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Gene expression is more than just on or off, it is more of a spectrum of expression, scientists are discovering. In a ne
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 30, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
To decide whether and where to move in the body, cells need to read chemical signals in their environment—and they
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Does a ninth planet exist in our solar system after Pluto, the dward planet we just recently successfully flew past and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 19, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
The shiny skins of certain ribbonfish reflect light across a broad range of wavelengths, giving them a brilliant metalli
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 03, 2015
Cardiology
Blood clots that form in the arteries, called arterial thrombosis, are the main cause of heart attacks and strokes. In o
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 25, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
To predict breast cancer progression, doctors have turned to mathematics and computer programming. Using these unconvent
...
OCT 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan fo
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 03, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The thousands of different bacteria living in our intestinal tract – our microbiome – have a major impact on
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 30, 2015
Cancer
While mathematical models are powerful tools for demonstrating how cancer grows and spreads, they have an either/or prob
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 28, 2015
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S., is very hard to detect in its early stages. Rarely diagnosed
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Supernova. Pulsar. Black hole. All of these are celestial events that astronomers study, hoping to find clues about how
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 30, 2015
Plants & Animals
The culmination of a nine-year study by biologists finds that an animal of one species often battles with one from anoth
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 23, 2015
Health & Medicine
Black-legged deer ticks are rapidly growing in number, expanding their range, and carrying pathogens into places where t
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
What are those ghostly images? NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently photographed a set of green objects that are float
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 27, 2015
Plants & Animals
When bats take wing looking for food, they're often at close quarters with one another, and a new study has determined h
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 26, 2015
Cancer
For people infected with the human papilloma virus (HPV), the likelihood of clearing the infection and avoiding HPV-rela
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 26, 2015
Chemistry & Physics
Suppose you dug a tunnel through the center of Earth, jumped in, and let gravity pull you through. How long would it tak
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 20, 2015
Immunology
Culling vampire bat colonies to fight rabies in Latin America does little to slow the spread of the virus-and could even
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 11, 2015
Cardiology
A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins cardiologist and biomedical engineer Hiroshi Ashikaga, MD, PhD, has developed
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 24, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists at Rice University have published new information about how motor proteins interact. Their study shows that w
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 25, 2014
Microbiology
A major problem in today's medicine is the issue of "superbugs" or antibiotic resistant strains of many diseases. While
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 20, 2014
Immunology
More than half of those diagnosed with HCV were infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants pr ...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke