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WID researchers Stephen Wright and Robert Nowak are part of a UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative project to create machine learning tools that dramatically reduce the time and cost associated with screening compounds for therapeutic relevance.
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Systems Biology researcher Kalin Vetsigian and graduate student Ye Xu recently published findings in Nature's Scientific Reports about the stochasticity of growth within Streptomycetes spore communities.
Experiments Test How Easy Life Itself Might Be
WID scientists are combining theory with experiment to try to understand how life could arise from lifelike chemical reactions under the right conditions.
Immersed in the Ethics of Virtual Reality
The Living Environments Laboratory will host the Ethics in Investigational & Interventional Uses of Virtual Reality (e3iVR) conference beginning with public talks on the afternoon of April 26. More information and registration are at go.wisc.edu/e3iVR.
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