| Description |
xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-266) and index. |
| 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.. |
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Systems biology.
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Computational biology.
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Human body.
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Computational biology. (OCoLC)fst00871990
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Human body. (OCoLC)fst01730057
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Systems biology. (OCoLC)fst01745552
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| ISBN |
9781632860293 (hardback) : $27.00 |
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1632860295 (hardback) |
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9781632860316 (ebook) |
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