Why scientists keep failing at stopping COVID and how mathematicians can help.
Have you been wondering why in times of cutting edge discoveries scientists still seem helpless in the fight with the pandemic? Here’s why.
Category Archives: Biological and brain networks
Eavesdropping on cancer
Oscillators and Alzheimer’s
After having a near-fatal accident falling off his horse, Prussian footman Hans Berger (1873—1941) was surprised to learn that his…
The seed bank, a hidden storage of genetic diversity
DNA self-assembly gives birth to new mathematics
At this very moment, the emergent science of DNA self-assembly is giving birth to a new field of mathematics that…
Not all jet-lags are the same
Why you are jet-lagged longer when flying from New York to Amsterdam than the other way around.
A multi-objective fight against prostate cancer
Evolutionary algorithms help physicians in the Amsterdam UMC to make treatment plans for prostate cancer patients.
Synchronization in the body-clock
The body-clock is a cluster of neurons connected to the eyes that dictates the rhythm of most bodily functions.
The seed bank, a hidden storage of genetic diversity
In 2012 a team of Russian scientists managed to germinate a 30.000 year old seed of an indigenous Siberian flower,…
Filming a fruit fly’s neurons firing
You probably didn’t hear about it, but a little while ago, an amazing advance happened in neuroscience: In 2015, for…