We develop an interacting particle model to simulate the life cycle of myxobacteria, which consists of two main stages--the swarming stage and the development (fruiting body formation) stage. As experiments have shown that the phase transition from swarming to development stage is triggered by starvation, we incorporate into the simulation a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) call...

The broad spectrum of anti-neoplastic activity and the diverse clinical applications of taxanes have engendered significant interest in identifying mechanistically similar but structurally distinct compounds. Epothilones emerged as a new class of putative antineoplastic drugs based on in vitro assays designed to competitively inhibit the binding of paclitaxel to microtubules [12]. Epothilones a...