Researchers from the FOM institute AMOLF and the Riken institute in Japan have developed a new algorithm that makes it possible to simulate signal transmission in living cells at the molecular level.

Embryonic development is driven by orderly, spatial patterns of gene regulatory proteins that assign each cell in the embryo its particular fate.

The FOM foundation has decided to award the Minerva prize 2010 to dr. Mirjam Leunissen for her publication about controlled self-organisation of small particles by means of special DNA structures.

AMOLF researchers have developed a mathematical model that can explain the preference of a bacterial motor to switch its rotation direction after a fixed period of 0.2 to 0.3 seconds.

The distribution of genes across the DNA can be described well by means of theories of one-dimensional gases.

AMOLF group leader Pieter Rein ten Wolde has been appointed professor of the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit (VU) as of 1st of June.

AMOLF group leaders Marileen Dogterom, Mischa Bonn and Pieter Rein ten Wolde have each been awarded a Vici grant for the research proposals they submitted to the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). Each grant...