On an August morning in a Northwestern developmental biology lab, a team of researchers casts its collective eyes on thousands of roundworms culled from sites around the globe. Using robotics to scan ...

The study of biology will increasingly require skill in math, or “a toolbox of diverse mathematical approaches,” according to a new article published in the journal Science. I don’t know if biologists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biology is rich in patterns. You’ll find them everywhere – from the number of petals on a flower (which generally correspond to a ...

These days Sneha Mitra, PhD, spends a lot of time thinking about T cells — a type of white blood cell that helps protect the body from infection and cancer. A postdoctoral fellow at the Sloan ...

W&M; and TNCC win a federal grant to help ecologists design animal sanctuaries. The National Science Foundation, a federal agency that supports science and engineering research, gave the College of ...

How can mathematicians help to solve questions about biology? By using mathematical methods to tackle highly complex problems such as stopping a disease outbreak, or predicting the effects of global ...

Bakers get paid to mix. Bartenders get paid to mix. And the University of Arizona is getting paid to mix — $1million to mix math and biology. The lottery-sized training grant, awarded by the National ...

Scientists have created a mathematical model that explains and predicts the biological process that creates antibody diversity -- the phenomenon that keeps us healthy by generating robust immune ...

Skin color patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among colored cells that obey equations, say investigators. Researchers report that a lizard acquires its adult skin color by ...

For more than a century, the notion that females are innately less capable than males at doing mathematics, especially at the highest levels, has persisted in even the loftiest circles. This was one ...