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Category Archives: Biological and brain networks

There are various biological and neurological processes where scientists use networks to understand them. In this category we collect articles on this topic.

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.

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Marta Milewska September 15, 2023

Eavesdropping on cancer

If cells advocate against your body, you better find out what they are saying.

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Mike van Sandvoort July 7, 2023

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…

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Christoffer Alexandersen, Christian Bick May 27, 2022

The seed bank, a hidden storage of genetic diversity

On 18 November, Margriet Oomen obtained her PhD cum laude from the University of Leiden. 

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Network Pages December 3, 2021

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…

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Jo Ellis-Monaghan August 20, 2021

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.

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Janusz Meylahn July 8, 2021

A multi-objective fight against prostate cancer

Evolutionary algorithms help physicians in the Amsterdam UMC to make treatment plans for prostate cancer patients.

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Stef Maree February 19, 2021

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.

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Frank den Hollander, Janusz Meylahn July 10, 2020

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,…

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Margriet Oomen October 28, 2019

Filming a fruit fly’s neurons firing

By André Karwath aka Aka - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=227170

You probably didn’t hear about it, but a little while ago, an amazing advance happened in neuroscience: In 2015, for…

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Tim Hulshof August 20, 2018
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