By examining regions shared between some of nature’s most variable genes, malaria researchers are piecing together an understanding of a deadly parasite.
Cellular clocks are almost everywhere. Clues to how they work are coming from the places they’re not.
Disease is the result of failure somewhere along the line in a complex dance of biological components. Now statistical physicists are using enormous databases of medical records to study connections between illnesses.
Nature’s large-scale patterns emerge from incomplete surveys that borrow ideas from information theory.