Bringing the Fruits of Computation to Bear on Human Health: It’s a Tough Job but the NIH Has to Do It
The National Institutes of Health are on a mission: To understand and tackle the problems of human health. To make that daunting problem approachable, 15 of the 20 institutes divvy up human health...
Oct, 05, 2012
Microarrays: The Search For Meaning in a Vast Sea of Data

They've gone from hype to backlash. Now it's time for reality: How microarrays are being used to benefit healthcare

When DNA microarray technology emerged more than a decade ago, it was met with unbridled enthusiasm. By allowing scientists to look at the expression of enormous numbers of genes in the genome...
Oct, 01, 2006
Ramping Up to Multiscale: Taking Biomedical Modeling to a New Level

Multi-scale modeling is now at what might be called its gestational stage

For centuries, mathematics has been an indispensable ally of the physical sciences and engineering. Planes fly and telephones work because engineers know how to simplify physical systems into...
Apr, 01, 2006