#computational model

Soft Cell

For over a hundred years scientists have tried to pin down life as it carries on regardless; to formalise its hidden rules using maths, or using increasingly powerful computers to simulate the volatile, complex, seemingly random events in cells, organs and ecosystems. Past efforts focus on smaller parts of the whole – models of signalling inside cells, or processes like cell division. But here scientists bring some of the pieces together, using computer models to simulate a simplified bacterial cell. Pictured after replicating its DNA, the virtual bacterium separates its 'mother' chromosome (green) from the two new 'daughter' chromosomes, partitioned into different areas of the cell by specific proteins, ready for the cell to divide. Simulating such 'simple' life is a step towards models of more complex mammalian cells, in health and disease.

Written by John Ankers

Video from work by Zane R. Thornburg and Andrew Maytin, and colleagues

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology, Urbana, IL, USA

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Cell, March 2026

How AI computational model is being used to fight Covid-19, Health News, ET HealthWorld

In their efforts to fight the pandemic, academic institutions have been working overtime on various innovative strategies.

A team of researchers at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi comprising Angshul Majumdar, professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and PhD scholar Aanchal Mongia has worked on an AI-based computational modelfor…

How AI computational model is being used to fight Covid-19 – latestbreakingnewsupdates.com

In their efforts to fight the pandemic, academic institutions have been working overtime on various innovative strategies. A team of researchers at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi comprising Angshul Majumdar, professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and PhD scholar Aanchal Mongia has worked on an AI-based computational model for…

Mitochondrial Pyridine Nucleotides and Electron Transport Chain -2.1.5

Mitochondrial Pyridine Nucleotides and Electron Transport Chain

Larry H Bernstein, MD, FCAP, writer and curator

http://pharmaceuticalinnovation.com/2015/04/03/larryhbern/Mitochondrial_Pyridine_Nucleotides_and_Electron_Transport_Chain

  2.1.5 Mitochondrial Pyridine Nucleotides and Electron Transport Chain

2.1.5.1 Mitochondrial function in vivo evaluated by NADH fluorescence

Mayevsky A1, Rogatsky…

Generator Yield

We will start with the example in the previous lecture, see the code here;-

import datetime class Person(object): def __init__(self, name): #Create a person with name self.name = name try: firstBlank = name.rindex(' ') # print "__init__: firstBlank: ", firstBlank self.lastName = name[firstBlank+1:] except : self.lastName = name self.birthDay = None def getLastName(self): #returns…

20 April 2013

Germ Warfare

The danger posed by bacteria becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics has been brought to the attention of the G8 nations by the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies. She warns that even routine operations could become risky within 20 years if the world fails to develop a new generation of antibiotics. One potential source is the human body, which makes natural germ-killing substances known as antimicrobial peptides. About 1,700 of these peptides have been detected including dermcidin, produced in sweat to disinfect cuts and grazes. Dermcidin kills bacteria by making holes in their surface – a strategy that is difficult for bugs to evolve defences against. Scientists recently studied how these holes are formed and the computer simulation pictured shows peptide molecules in orange and dark blue, forming a channel into the cell. This hole allows ions to flow uncontrollably across the cell membrane, with fatal results.

Written by Mick Warwicker

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Kornelius Zeth, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany

Ulrich Zachariae, University of Edinburgh, UK