I have an article out in Science News for Students this week, on the immune system, and how computers are allowing us to create simulated immune-cell interactions that mimic the human body and healing:
Virtual Wounds: Computers probe healing
It’s written for young people age 8 to 18.
.png) When the body needs to deliver immune cells to an injury, new blood vessels form. Here, an agent-based model imitates that. It shows what happens when mouse eye tissue (on left) gets blood vessels from developing eye tissue (on right). Image credit: Joseph Walpole, University of Virginia |