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Biologists Use Mathematics to Advance Our Understanding of Health and Disease
Math models help scientists reason across scales in biology, such as from interactions between sick and healthy people to the spread of global pandemics. John Tyson, professor of biology at Virginia Tech, is creating such models to discover how cells process information and make decisions.
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Math models help scientists reason across scales in biology, such as from interactions between sick and healthy people to the spread of global pandemics. John Tyson, professor of biology at Virginia Tech, is creating such models to discover how cells process information and make decisions.
