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Why Don’t Patients Get Sick in Sync? Modelers Find Statistical Clues.

By Veronique Greenwood
March 1, 2018
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The long, variable times that some diseases incubate after infection defies simple explanation. An idealized model of tumor growth offers a statistical solution.

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A Statistical Search for Genomic Truths

By Jordana Cepelewicz
February 27, 2018
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The computer scientist Barbara Engelhardt develops machine-learning models and methods to scour human genomes for the elusive causes and mechanisms of disease.

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How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation

By Joshua Sokol
July 6, 2017
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The evolutionary biologist Jessica Flack seeks the computational rules that groups of organisms use to solve problems.

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A Timely Fix for a Grand Theory of Nature

By Veronique Greenwood
March 11, 2016
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A disarmingly simple model of ecology does everything well — except predict how rapidly nature can change. Can it become more realistic while still avoiding all of biology’s messy complexities?

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Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life

By John Pavlus
January 28, 2016
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The biological world is computational at its core, argues computer scientist Leslie Valiant.


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