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  1. Simons Foundation Summer Interns Explore Science and Self-Discovery

  2. Mysteries of Fruit Fly Sperm Untangled by Mathematical Models

  3. Beyond the Cryo-EM Resolution Revolution

  4. How Mathematical Modeling Identified Subclasses of Autism

  5. Alumni Spotlight: Gokberk Kabacaoglu

  6. Alumni Spotlight: Jamie Morton

  7. Pilar Cossio: Reconstructing RNA’s Shapeshifting Behavior

  8. The Machinery That Helps Divide Your Cells Self-Organizes Like an Active Liquid Crystal

  9. A Tug-of-War Explains a Decades-Old Question About How Bacteria Swim

  10. From Ring to Keyhole: Modeling How Tissues Mold the Fruit Fly’s Gut

  11. New Study Reveals Subclasses of Autism by Linking Traits to Genetics

  12. New Model Predicts How Bacteria Navigate Obstacles To Spread

  13. Claustrophobic Cells Slow Their Own Growth, Forming Beautiful Patterns of Concentric Circles

  14. Physics-Informed AI Method Could Help Make CRISPR Safer

  15. Researchers Crack Mystery of Swirling Vortexes in Egg Cells

  16. CCB Flatiron Research Fellow Miro Astore Awarded Young Biophysicist Award

  17. All 5 Flatiron Centers Represented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

  18. Experiments and Mathematical Model Uncover the Mechanisms Behind Wrinkles in Cell Nuclei

  19. Moving in Harmony

  20. Cutting-Edge Computational Study Provides ‘Gut Check’ to How We Thought Proteins Function

  21. Going With the Flow: Mapping Vascular Systems in Fruit Flies

  22. Why Don’t Disease-Linked Genetic Mutations Always Result in Disease? A Study in Fruit Flies Offers New Clues

  23. New Testing Approach Diagnoses COVID-19 With Near-Perfect Accuracy

  24. Simons Foundation Scientists Named as Sloan Research Fellows

  25. Computational Biology Goes Under the Microscope

  26. Small Cell, Big Picture: Fundamental Biology Through the Lens of Simplified Models

  27. Big Data and Powerful Computing Join Forces To Link DNA Sequence and Function

  28. The Fruit Fly Photographer

  29. The RNA Detective

  30. CCB Director Michael Shelley and Simons-Supported Researchers Elected to National Academy of Sciences

  31. New Model Shows How Cilia Make Waves

  32. A Machine-Learning Framework for Prioritizing Disease-Associated Enhancers

  33. A ‘Forest Fire’ Model of Cell Division Can Explain Clonal Dominance in Developing Tissue

  34. NetQuilt: A Powerful Computational Approach for Predicting Protein Function

  35. Fruit Fly Egg Takes an Active Hand in Its Own Growth, Highlighting Parallels to Mammals

  36. CCB and CCM Collaborate To Create the New Structural and Molecular Biophysics Team

  37. Mathematics Explains How Giant Whirlpools Form in Developing Egg Cells

  38. Unveiling the Forces Behind Millions of Years of Cell Division

  39. Finding Signals in the Noise With HumanBase

  40. Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells May ‘Prime’ Diabetics for COVID-19 Infection

  41. A Software, a Community and a Different Way To Do Science

  42. Computing the Egg: The Effort To Calculate Biological Development

  43. Plasticity May Make Neurons Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease

  44. Mutations in Uncharted Territory

  45. Deciphering the Brain’s Algorithms

  46. The Flatiron Institute: A Home for Computational Sciences

  47. Beauty and the Brain

  48. You’re Not All Human: The Wonder of Gut Microbes