Rules of Life

NSF-Simons centers to search for the Rules of Life

New, $10 million centers bridge biology and mathematics to uncover how genetic codes spawn complex life

As a fruit fly’s eye develops, structural complexity emerges.

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May 24, 2018

The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Simons Foundation, has launched four new centers to bring mathematical perspectives to the biological search for the Rules of Life.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Simons Foundation, has launched four new centers to bring mathematical perspectives to the biological search for the Rules of Life.

The NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems will explore how information encoded in DNA results in complex organisms with diverse forms, functions and behaviors when it is manipulated by changing environments across multiple time scales.