Ramapo College Bioinformatics Program

05/31/2026

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-protein-folding-ai-vastly-expands-on-alphafolds-efforts/

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

05/28/2026

MutationProjector uses AI foundation modeling to predict cancer therapy response and interpret complex tumor mutation patterns across cancers.

05/20/2026

A microbiome pill could help patients with melanoma who do not respond to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy to overcome this resistance.

05/20/2026

Researchers say epigenetic phase variation mechanism may explain microbiome resilience and variability and could guide the next generation of probiotics.

05/19/2026

GlucoBrain was established to help researchers understand exactly how diseases like diabetes and dementia work at a deeper, biological level.

05/01/2026

Large language models meet or even exceed the abilities of physicians in diagnosis and patient management tasks and “have now eclipsed most benchmarks of clinical reasoning,” researchers report.

04/17/2026

Ramapo College undergraduate Bioinformatics Program was recently highlighted!

One of my favorite quote in this article:
“Faculty say the program’s strength comes from its interdisciplinary foundation, the cornerstone of Ramapo’s liberal arts curriculum.”

A bioinformatics degree at Ramapo College combines biology and computer science through hands-on research, preparing students for graduate study and biotechnology careers.

04/06/2026

Another example of drug repurposing

Metformin was found to increase levels of N-lactoyl-phenylalanine (Lac-Phe) in prostate cancer patients whose movement may be limited.

03/16/2026

A deep learning model called TLPath can estimate telomere length from routine histopathology slides, enabling scalable studies of aging.

03/16/2026

A treatment that combines celecoxib with ciprofloxacin may help improve symptoms and prolong survival in people with ALS.