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For mathematical problems arising from medicine, the science and practice of studying, preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries.

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Mathematics and cancer research

What are applications of mathematics in cancer research? Unfortunately, I heard quite little about applications of mathematics, but I heard something about applications of physics, and let me put this ...
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Applications of group theory to mathematical biology (pharmacology)

Are there applications of group theory — broadly, say, representation theory, Lie algebras, $q$-groups, etc — to mathematical biology? In particular, I am interested in applications to pharmacology — ...