Ramapo College Bioinformatics Program

06/17/2026

Members of the Ramapo Science Journal Club, Spring 2026.
We enjoyed an outstanding semester filled with lively discussions and exploration of cutting-edge scientific research.
The Ramapo Science Journal Club's mission is to promote awareness of recent advances in scientific research. At weekly meetings, students lead presentations and engage in critical evaluation and in-depth discussion of pre-assigned articles published within the past six months in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
This spring, discussions covered a range of hot topics, including CAR-T therapy, autism spectrum disorder, RNA nanostructures, chronic stress, the role of the gut microbiome in osteoporosis, and apoptosis induction in breast carcinomas.

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.