What's a good way to teach math to students interested in biology and medicine? Most colleges have a "calculus for life sciences" course, but these folks at UCLA have redesigned their course around dynamical systems and mathematical modeling. lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cb…

My hot take is that I’m with good ol’ TH Morgan on this, biology is fundamentally simple. Over complicated explanations are just a sign of our ignorance.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist, Passes Away: Five Songs That Capture His Genius A mathematics professor at Harvard University, Lehrer was also known for his creative rhymes. Sidharth Bhatia✍️ thewire.in/the-arts/tom-l…

Under geometric constraints, ascidian embryos maximize information transmission to establish the neural cell fate by tuning surface contact areas, enabling distinct neural fates despite uniform signal levels. go.aps.org/44p0Lu6

How many plasmids can bacteria carry? A synthetic biology perspective doi.org/10.1098/rsob.2…

Answer to this is very simple but people won’t admit it.

I’ve always been interested in the stories behind BioNumbers. Textbooks say DNA polymerase, for example, replicates 220 nucleotides per second. But how do we know this? How can one actually measure the speed of a single enzyme? A fast typist, for comparison, types ~80 words per

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I couldn’t stop reading about the ancient problem of squaring the circle (so illustrative of the mathematical activity and its evolution). So far, I’d easily recommend these three books to anyone interested:

Excited to share the final version of the STRESS software paper 🎉 Do you want to measure cell or tissue stresses using deformable beads or droplets, please check this paper: nature.com/articles/s4159… Full access: rdcu.be/ezlGj and the preprint thread below ⬇️

A Review on the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable #MachineLearning with #ArtificialNeuralNetworks" highlights the origins of this work in physics of living systems and what the future holds for the field. go.aps.org/4m6HO5R

Learning the Waddington Seascape of Immune T-cell Development and Response. Explore new NITMB-Supported Research from Armita Nourmohammad (Dr. Armita Nourmohammad) (Associate Professor, University of Washington)! Learn more at nitmb.org/post/new-2025-…

We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! EMBL Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei... Please re-post 🙏

Book #OTD: "The Geometry of Equilibrium: James Clerk Maxwell and 21st-Century Structural Mechanics" 1/2

Do ant colonies work like liquid brains? Check this great paper in pnas, led by CEAB-CSIC Pol Fernandez-Lopez and Frederic Bartumeus, explaining foraging behaviour by modelling ants as mobile neural agents Jordi pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Professor Padmanabhan Babu has—in his quiet and understated manner—had an important impact on developmental biology, only one aspect of which was the isolation of the lin-4 mutant allele (e912), highlighted below in the post by Richard Behringer Richard Behringer and the Society of

Fast, long-range intercellular signal propagation through growth assisted positive feedback doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

A minimal activator-inhibitor-repressor model to describe the hepatic circadian clock doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

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🐟 Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Clear as glass, zebrafish embryos let you watch organs form in real time. A powerhouse for studying organogenesis and regeneration, they’re also champions of transgenic expression of fluorescent proteins 🌈 image from Gopi Shah 🧪 #ModelMonday #DevBio