A previously unknown pattern in DNA methylation -- an event that affects cell function by altering gene expression -- has been uncovered for the first time by stem cell researchers, a finding that ...

University of Toronto researchers have developed a new computational method to study how chromosomes within human cells are organized. The method could help advance precision medicine by shedding ...

A perceptron is code that models the behavior of a single biological neuron. Perceptrons are the predecessors of neural networks. A neural network can be thought of as a collection of connected ...

When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT) they tend to think about big data technologies like Hadoop where petabyte size datasets are stored and analyzed for both known and unknown patterns.

If you’ve ever watched soccer, you’ll know of the subtle differences in tactics and formation between different teams. There is the long ball game, the pressing game, the zone defense, and so on. Many ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...