hearts and minds

My latest feature in Current Biology juxtaposes a highly acclaimed project to simulate the function of the heart and a somewhat controversial, but well-funded one to do the same for the brain.

Simulating hearts and minds

Current Biology, Volume 23, Issue 5, R177-R180, 4 March 2013

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.032

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Here is a video about the Alya Red project featured in my article:

Alya Red: A Computational heart

This video recently won Science magazine's prize for science communication.

spektrum

In this month's Spektrum der Wissenschaft, I have:

Groß M:
Spektrum der Wissenschaft Nr 9, 19-21
Monte Carlo in der Membran

... a shorter account of which is also available in English here:

Gross M:
Chemistry World 4, No 8, 31 (online: 06.07.)
Predicting how proteins fold


It's all about membrane proteins and predicting their folding using computer models.