Scientists advance efforts to create 'virtual cell lab' as testing ground for future research with live cells

Scientists advance efforts to create 'virtual cell lab' as testing ground for future research with live cells

Using mathematical analysis of patterns of human and animal cell behavior, scientists say they have developed a computer program that mimics the behavior of such cells in any part of the body. Led by investigators at Indiana University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Oregon Health & Science University, the new work was designed to advance ways of testing and predicting biological processes, drug respons…

Cell Activity Predicted Using Plain-Language “Hypothesis Grammar”

Researchers at Indiana University and at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), have developed a method to predict cell activity in tissues over time, similarly to how weather forecast models can predict developing storms. The newly developed software combines genomics technologies with computational modeling to predict cell changes in behavior, such as communication between cells that could cause …