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Feb 15, 2019 | biology, health and medicine

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https://doi.org/10.26320/SCIENTIA280

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With unprecedented advances in scientific research comes a growing body of data. Accurately interpreting these data is a significant obstacle to an improved understanding of biological systems and their behaviour during disease. To overcome this challenge, Dr Stuart C. Sealfon of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is pioneering innovative approaches that incorporate mathematical modelling and computational prediction to further our understanding of human diseases.

 

 

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