Complex biological systems are more than the sum of their parts – their properties emerge from the dynamic interaction of their components, such as molecules or cells. PhD researchers now have the ...

An international study has used a computational biology tool that, by analyzing a multitude of biological data from multiple sclerosis patients ranging from genetic information to the whole organism, ...

Do chaos and complexity play a fundamental role in biological information processing? The interdisciplinary approach to problems that till recently were addressed in the hermetic framework of distinct ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

One of the central tenets of biology is that our genetics—our genotype—influences the physical characteristics we manifest—our phenotype. But with more than 25,000 human genes and more than 6,000,000 ...

A 3D graphic showing an artist's interpretation of human X and Y chromosomes. On the left are blue bundles of genetic material making an X shape and on the right blue bundles of genetic material ...

Thomas Merritt receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Allie Hutchings does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

1. The expansion of intensive agricultural practices is a major threat to biodiversity and to the delivery of ecosystem services on which humans depend. Local-scale conservation management strategies, ...

In 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework ...