For most of the 20th century, mathematics was seen as a close and natural partner of physics and engineering. Secondary and postsecondary mathematics educators channeled the mainstream of their ...

As mathematics continues to become an increasingly important component in undergraduate biology programs, a more comprehensive understanding of the use of algebraic models is needed by the next ...

The careful modeling, analysis, and simulation of living systems using the tools of applied mathematics have led to novel biological insights. Our faculty develop mathematical models and perform ...

Mathematics is increasingly integral to biology as more detailed experiments in recent years have led to a huge influx in biological data The following essay is reprinted with permission from The ...

Northwestern University and the University of Chicago are partnering to establish a new $50 million center that will apply mathematics to better understand fundamentals of biology. Northwestern ...

On an August morning in a Northwestern developmental biology lab, a team of researchers casts its collective eyes on thousands of roundworms culled from sites around the globe. Using robotics to scan ...

A new US institute that will be part funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will aim to become the world centre for collaboration between mathematicians and biologists. The National ...

A novel mathematical approach has uncovered that some animal cells have robust 12-hour cycles of genetic activity, in addition to circadian or 24-hour cycles. A novel mathematical approach has ...

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

Recent mathematical advances have made it more feasible to model cancer from a mathematical viewpoint. For example, we now have individual-based modelling techniques that better represent the ...