Irina Kareva translates biology into mathematics and vice versa. She writes mathematical models that describe the dynamics of cancer, with the goal of developing new drugs that target tumors. "The power and beauty of mathematical modeling lies in the fact that it makes you formalize, in a very rigorous way, what we think we know," Kareva says. "It can help guide us to where we should keep looking, and where there may be a dead end." It all comes down to asking the right question and translating it to the right equation, and back.
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first!
always wanted to do that
Math for the win. Usually I wait to watch these, but my love is math. So, I have to watch this now. Yay math! Okay, sorry; I’m just excited.
me too
This is Awesome
Yes it is.
math can also kill people
math can also kill animals
Chemistry can also kill people.
Batman can also kill people.
Islam has killed 270 million people in just over 1,400 years.
+Dack Hacksaw I smell propaganda.
I wanna know long these equations took to make
Meanwhile I’m just wondering when I’ll see a video with a title that doesn’t sound like clickbait
allooutrick to be fair it’s not really clickbait
Did you even watch the video or do you have any clue about the topic biomathematics?
Macgki, lol, do you expect the average youtuber to be knowledgeable in biomathematics? Heck, I’m a biology student and I barely know anything about the subject.
Pan Raphael Of course i don’t, but you just can’t judge the title as clickbait if you don’t know any better, and you do by either watching the video or having knowledge about the topic.
Let’s just all agree that it sounds clickbaity but it mostly isn’t.
Were cancer researchers not using math before?
nothing at all surely they were?
nothing at all probably not
Awesome creativity in logical reasoning
Ecology; the math of biology.
Awesome, inspirational
Meth ftw
math can literally answer everything. math isn’t really a physical thing… it is everything.
William Alfaro finally someone that’s shares my enthusiasm!
Curing cancer is as simple as 1 2 3 (Cough) C B D
Math gives me cancer
In other news, this is one of the Russian women who peed on Trump.
Glad to see a real talk from TED, instead of the African music or proselytising videos.
too much of available funding generally gives rise to useless research
The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation.
And the heaven He raised and imposed the balance.
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
(Surah Ar Rahman.)
Indeed, all things We created with predestination. (Surah Al Qamar)
He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and who has not taken a son and has not had a partner in dominion and has created each thing and determined it with [precise] determination. (Surah Al Furqan)
[And] who created seven heavens in layers. You do not see in the creation of the Most Merciful any inconsistency. So return [your] vision [to the sky]; do you see any breaks? (Al Mulk)
http://www.quran.com
Under Islamic Shar’ia law, what is the prescribed penalty for apostasy, or leaving the religion of Islam?
DURMUŞ BAYSAL allahu akbar
She’s hot