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Gaming technology brings biology models to life

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Nancy D. Lamontagne

The graphics processing units (GPUs) behind today’s quick and complex gaming systems are being harnessed by researchers at Michigan Technological University in Houghton to build simulations of complex biological systems. Researchers used an agent-based model to simulate the human response to tuberculosis. First a nodule called a granuloma forms containing macrophages. At the core of the nodule are macrophages infected by tuberculosis. They are using agent-based modeling, which predicts outcomes by simulating the behaviors of complex systems. In biology, this type of approach can be useful...Read full article

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    Published: November 2008
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