by Raman Lab | Jan 12, 2026 | Science Demystified
Introducing the Spectral Tree: A new geometry of evolutionary diversity Published in Cell Systems in 2025 What shape does biological diversity take? For centuries, evolutionary biology has answered this with the tree—a metaphor for descent with modification. But if...
by Raman Lab | Jan 12, 2026 | Featured, Science Demystified
Learning emergence from statistics Published in eLife in 2022 What if we could uncover organizing principles of biology not by cataloguing every gene or molecule, but by learning from the statistical structure of the system itself? In the first paper from our lab we...
by Debi Lewis | Sep 16, 2025 | Science Demystified
Why funding ‘Complexity Science’ matters now more than ever Science thrives on curiosity, persistence, and the willingness to ask difficult questions. But science also requires something more practical: funding. At the Raman Lab, our mission is to understand...
by Raman Lab | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured, Science Demystified
Welcome to the Raman Lab. Hello! If you look around our site, you’ll see a lot of different stuff about Biology. But really, we study just one thing. How nature builds complexity. And how we can learn from it. We believe that the most elegant solutions in science...
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