From happiness on Twitter to DNA organization
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 09:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Twitter users who are happy tend to be more connected with other happy users. This is the confirmation of a property of social networks known as assortativity: a measure of to what extent people who tend to connect with each other share certain characteristics. A study conceived by Vera Pancaldi and Daniel Rico from the Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by Alfonso Valencia, has redefined this measure in order to better understand the 3D organisation of DNA inside the cell nucleus.