Daily Archives: August 8, 2016

Jurassic siphon

The sauropod dinosaurs were the tallest animals to ever stalk the earth. The fossilised remains of sauropods indicate that some had necks as long as 12 m.  Sauropods are often depicted with their heads held high –

Zinc – A beneficial player in autoimmune diseases

Essential trace elements, especially zinc, are indispensable for a proper immune function. Zinc deficiency or excess causes severe impairment of the immune response. So far, an increased susceptibility to infections, increased number of transplant rejections, development of

Multiplex methods provide effective integration of multi-omic data in genome-scale models

Structures called networks are often used as a way of simplifying complex problems. For instance, you’ve probably heard of social networks, where we simplify the complexity of human interactions by categorizing each pair of people as either