In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from the University of Michigan has used simulations on the Pittsburgh ...

The reliable nature of the DNA base pairing rules discovered by Franklin, Watson, and Crick 1,2 is crucial to maintaining accurate replication of genetic material. A low but finite rate of DNA ...

The mutation rate of a specific position in the human genome depends on the sequence context surrounding it. Modeling the mutation rate by estimating a rate for each possible k-mer, however, only ...

Example of a spatial configuration of a 2D expanding and evolving colony of cells, a typical simulation representing an example with 3 mutations. The individual graphs represent different snapshots in ...

Imagine a virus is like a key, and the cells it can infect are like locks. A virus can’t infect any cell of any animal; it needs to find a cell with the right “lock” (called a receptor) or change its ...