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Parasitic Editors Win the Genome
In biology, fitness can be crudely measured by a simple method: counting. If a particular species is well represented in a particular ecosystem, one can conclude that evolution has treated them well,...
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Alan Turing’s Underrated Biology
By Rob Mitchum Alan Turing is best known as the father of the modern computer, a skillful World War II codebreaker, and a pioneer in the study of artificial intelligence. But in the last years before...
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A Big Boost for Big Data at UChicago
Last week Margot and Tom Pritzker, chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization, hosted a gathering of local corporate leaders and University of Chicago researchers to boost awareness of big-data...
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The Big Picture for the Microbiome
Jack Gilbert, PhD, at the Discovery & Impact event on the microbiome on May 1, 2013 “Every single one of you has 100 trillion bacterial cells on you, and those 100 trillion cells are found all over...
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A Summer of Science
Students from the Conte Center REU: Brandon Rayhaun (UChicago), Timothy Whalen (UChicago), Justin Harris (UChicago), Virginia Wang (UChicago), Evonne McArthur (UChicago), and Vignessh Kumar (UIC) As...
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Visualizing the Symphony in the Brain
Image from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Researchers at UChicago are using advanced computation to understand the symphony of electrical activity in the brain. It’s hard to comprehend all the...
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A Better Beagle: $2 Million Upgrade to UChicago Supercomputer Will Boost...
Beagle, a Cray XE6 supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, supports computation, simulation and data analysis for the biomedical research community. For three years, the Beagle supercomputer has...
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Supercomputer model helps explain electrical shock
ZZT, ow! That old extension cord you just reached for behind the entertainment center just delivered a painful surprise: an electric shock to the fingers of your right hand. Despite a quick reflexive...
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A big data look at improving scientific research: A Q&A with Andrey Rzhetsky
Andrey Rzhetsky, PhD, professor of medicine and human genetics and director of the Conte Center for Computational Neuropsychiatric Genomics Of all the possible experiments available in biomedical...
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New ecological model generates diversity with chain of head-to-head battles
A new mathematical model of ecology created by University of Chicago scientists provides the most accurate reproduction to date of natural biodiversity, according to a new paper in the journal...
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