Vaccines: Sex Matters
Vaccines: Sex Matters
Male patients who recover from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges than female patients.
Male patients who recover from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges than female patients.
systems biology
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Can Alter Future Immune Reponses
Niki Spahich, PhD | Feb 22, 2023 | 3 min read
Males recovered from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges.
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Single-Cell Transcriptomics and Proteomics
The Scientist Creative Services Team in Collaboration with IsoPlexis | Dec 3, 2021 | 1 min read
An expert panel will discuss how a functional cell library confirms critical insights from previous omics studies. Additionally, they will introduce an innovative platform that connects single cell transcriptomics with functional proteomics for the first time.
Capturing Heterogeneity: How Single Cell Analysis Reshapes Health and Disease Research
The Scientist | Sep 30, 2021 | 1 min read
Timothy O’Sullivan and Jacob Blum will discuss how they use single cell data to understand complex biological systems.
How the Second mRNA Vaccine Bolsters Immunity
Annie Melchor | Jul 23, 2021 | 6 min read
A study looks beyond T and B cell responses to show how the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine elicits a strong innate immune response.
Analyzing Biological Systems with Flow Cytometry
The Scientist Creative Services Team in collaboration with Beckman Coulter Life Sciences | Jul 19, 2021 | 1 min read
Single-cell analysis provides a superior view of heterogeneous cell populations.
How Deep Can We Go? Multiomic Approaches to Biological Questions
The Scientist | Jun 10, 2021 | 1 min read
Benjamin Haibe-Kains and Rachelly Normand showcase how they use multiomic approaches to fight both old and new diseases.
Computational Biologist Bing Liu Dies in Suspected Murder
Kerry Grens | May 7, 2020 | 1 min read
The University of Pittsburgh scientist, who was studying SARS-CoV-2, was shot to death in his home.
Scientists Play Favorites with Studying Human Genes. Here’s Why.
Sukanya Charuchandra | Sep 19, 2018 | 2 min read
Despite the Human Genome Project having heralded the exploration of previously unknown human genes, the focus of genetic studies remains narrow.
The Cell’s Integrated Circuit: A Profile of Lucy Shapiro
Anna Azvolinsky | Aug 1, 2018 | 9 min read
Shapiro helped to found the field of systems biology.
Pulling It All Together
Kate Yandell | Apr 1, 2016 | 9 min read
Systems-biology approaches offer new strategies for finding hard-to-identify drug targets for cancer.
Minimal Genome Created
Ruth Williams | Mar 24, 2016 | 3 min read
Scientists build a living cellular organism with a genome smaller than any known in nature.
All Systems Go
Anna Azvolinsky | Dec 1, 2014 | 8 min read
Alan Aderem earned his PhD while under house arrest for protesting apartheid in South Africa. His early political involvement has guided his scientific focus, encouraging fellow systems biologists to study immunology and infectious diseases.
Illuminating the Interactome
Molly Sharlach | Nov 20, 2014 | 3 min read
A massive screen yields the most comprehensive map of binary human protein interactions to date.
New School
Abby Olena, PhD | Feb 1, 2014 | 8 min read
Graduate programs at the interface of quantitative and biological sciences set the stage for more interdisciplinary collaboration.
Jennifer Reed: Metabolism Modeler
Bob Grant | Feb 1, 2013 | 3 min read
Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Age: 34
The Virtual Physiological Rat
Jessica P. Johnson | Aug 12, 2011 | 1 min read
The NIH awards $13 million to create a computer model of a lab rat.