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The cell as a miniature computer
How can cells transmit the myriad environmental cues to which they are exposed in an efficient and reliable manner? Researchers from the FOM Institute AMOLF have shown that cells, like computers, can multiplex: cells can transmit...read more »
Functioning biological clock unravelled
In the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, researchers from the FOM Institute AMOLF and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, present a mathematical model that explains how the...read more »
How walking slower can make you respond faster
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.read more »
Diffusion makes gene expression patterns less diffuse
Embryonic development is driven by orderly, spatial patterns of gene regulatory proteins that assign each cell in the embryo its particular fate.read more »
AMOLF postdoc Mirjam Leunissen receives Minerva prize from FOM
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.read more »
Mechanical feedback triggers switching of a molecular motor
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.read more »
DNA behaves like a necklace with visible and invisible beads
The distribution of genes across the DNA can be described well by means of theories of one-dimensional gases. read more »