Systematic : how systems biology is transforming modern medicine /
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New York :
Bloomsbury Sigma,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface. The big idea
- Part I. The basics
- Seeing the systems in biology: technological advances are letting scientists understand living things in a new way
- Déjà vu all over again: the common patterns and principles of natural systems
- America's next top mathematical model: understanding complex systems sometimes requires math
- Ignoring the devil in the details: robustness, prediction, noise, and the general properties of systems
- Part II. Cells, organisms, and ecosystems
- Beyond Tom Hanks's nose: sequencing technology is enabling scientists to study all of a cell's genes at once
- The smells of the father: RNA, DNA margin notes, and the other missing parts of the cellular system
- Growing pains: how cells and tissues coordinate development, from egg to adulthood
- No organism is an island: the interactions between individuals and species that shape ecosystems
- Part III. Applications
- Build me a buttercup: using synthetic biology to make diesel fuel, programmable cells, and malaria medicine
- More than just 86 billion neurons: the science of the brain, and how connections among neurons make it work
- Death and taxes: aging is governed by an organism-wide system that we might be able to manipulate
- Your microbiome and you: the body is host to trillions of microbes that affect human health
- This is your system on drugs: tweaking biological systems to produce better medical treatments.