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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Valcourt, James R., author.     Subjects     Systems biology.     Computational biology.     Human body.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Valcourt, James R., author.       by title:      Systematic : how sys...         MARC Display

Systematic : how systems biology is transforming modern medicine / James R. Valcourt. by Valcourt, James R., author. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017. Subjects Systems biology.   Computational biology.   Human body. ISBN:  9781632860293 (hardback) : 1632860295 (hardback) Description:  xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm 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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 570.285 Va Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 570.285 Va Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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