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I should have loved biology too
How I went from hating it to being obsessed, the allure of great writing, and a post-scuba-dive moment of clarity
 • Nehal Udyavar
The Hunt for Huntington's
How one daughter’s rebellion against fate drove a scientific revolution
 • Nehal Udyavar
How to make 80 tonnes of "magic bullets" a year
Or, how monoclonal antibodies went from laboratory to industrial bioreactor, saving millions of lives
 • Nehal Udyavar
What's going on with gene therapies? (Part one)
Cell and gene therapies are treating previously untreatable diseases and saving tens of thousands of lives. So why are companies shutting down?
 • Nehal Udyavar and Vera Mucaj
The experiment that turned back biological time
The story, science, and effort behind the discovery of the induced pluripotent stem cell
 • Nehal Udyavar

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Simulating Genetic Circuits: Biological AND Gates
I built a simulator that shows you how the coherent type-1 feed-forward loop, a biological AND gate, works
 • Nehal Udyavar
Simulating the Evolution of Genetic Circuits: Part One
I built a simulator that shows you genetic circuit evolution step-by-step
 • Nehal Udyavar
Systems Biology #4: Autoregulation as a Network Motif
A new interactive article on how to find patterns in a network, and what to make of them when they occur in transcription networks
 • Nehal Udyavar
I Built an Erdős-Rényi Graph Generator
How to generate random graphs, and why it's important in analyzing biological transcription networks (as well as other kinds of networks)
 • Nehal Udyavar
A New Interactive Series for Systems Biology
Announcing a new series of interactive articles explaining introductory concepts in systems biology, starting with transcription networks
 • Nehal Udyavar
Links #3: Favorite Reads from Last Week
AI to engineer biology, the crimes behind our seafood, elder statesman Tony Bourdain, and the forever chemicals coursing through our blood
 • Nehal Udyavar
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