Cells live in a world of chaos, constantly buffeted by random molecular jolts that can derail even the most carefully tuned ...

Blacksburg, Va. -- Math-based computer models are a powerful tool for discovering the details of complex living systems. John Tyson, professor of biology at Virginia Tech, is creating such models to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — With recent advances, cancer research now generates vast amounts of information. The data could help researchers detect patterns in cancer cells and stop their growth, but the ...

E.O. Wilson is an eminent Harvard biologist and best-selling author. I salute him for his accomplishments. But he could not be more wrong in his recent piece in the Wall Street Journal (adapted from ...

Virginia Tech biology professor John Tyson and his colleagues are using math-based models to advance understanding of cells, health and disease. Here is a press release from the university: Math-based ...

Drew LaMar is a mathematician imbedded in William & Mary’s biology department, a response to a growing imperative that undergraduate biology students acquire a better grounding in quantitative and ...

June 1 -- Stephen Jay Gould, the eminent evolutionary biologist and stylish essayist who died last month, used mathematics to elucidate many ideas, both in and out of science. Gould's was a ...

The molecular signaling systems of complex cells are nothing like simple electronic circuits. The logic governing their operation is riotously complex — but it has advantages. It was a brilliant ...