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Power Tools: New Math Model Optimizes Energy
Discovery Fellow Jim Luedtke, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializes in stochastic and integer optimization, a natural fit for power systems.
Should We Alter the Human Genome? Let Democracy Decide
WID’s Krishanu Saha and colleagues J. Benjamin Hurlbut and Sheila Jasanoff write in Scientific American about germ line editing and the need for more scientific and moral clarity.
New Tool Predicts Three-Dimensional Organization of Human Chromosomes
WID researchers have developed a computational tool that can accurately predict the three-dimensional interactions between regions of human chromosomes.
Lifelike Chemistry Created in Lab Search for Ways to Study Origin of Life
Discovery Fellow David Baum leads a team that has cultivated lifelike chemical reactions while pioneering a new strategy for studying the origin of life.
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