Molecular biology has advanced quite rapidly in the past few decades, especially after the discovery of the DNA in 1953. However, in order to gain the fruits from this significant scientific leap, the reductionist molecular and genetic approach is not enough, explaining why the benefits from molecular biology in health care is relatively slow compared to the advances in this interesting scientific field. This book is about systems biology, where the author focuses on the fact that it is not possible to understand the logic behind the system from studying the system’s components only. The molecular and cellular components are in fact interacting in a balanced symphonic harmony which Noble calls the music of life.
“Do you not know that our soul is composed of harmony?“, Leonardo da Vinci
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Monday, 13 July 2015
Intensive reading club
Intelligent biology is an intensive reading club dedicated to biology. Our aim is to scrutinise the major achievements in the area by reading all kinds of the summarising material, especially books, review articles and research notes.
We start with the focus on the adaptive biology, generation of forms, genetics, and systems biology. The future will show which directions to expand the reading club to, for example, the first candidates for such an expansion are neuroscience and cognition. This strongly depends on the authors' background, which is currently biophysics, engineering, systems biology, biostatistics. However, this can be further developed by either our personal self-education or experience of the new authors (welcome!).
Our approach can be characterised as skeptical empiricism with strong emphasis on real data and being as distant from the speculations, extrapolations, and prejudice as possible. We believe that these topics are too important to give up on them by following certain interpretations based on the old data. The fresh look is always preferable.
We start with the focus on the adaptive biology, generation of forms, genetics, and systems biology. The future will show which directions to expand the reading club to, for example, the first candidates for such an expansion are neuroscience and cognition. This strongly depends on the authors' background, which is currently biophysics, engineering, systems biology, biostatistics. However, this can be further developed by either our personal self-education or experience of the new authors (welcome!).
Our approach can be characterised as skeptical empiricism with strong emphasis on real data and being as distant from the speculations, extrapolations, and prejudice as possible. We believe that these topics are too important to give up on them by following certain interpretations based on the old data. The fresh look is always preferable.
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