Antifragility and tinkering in biology (and in business) flexibility provides an efficient epigenetic way to manage risk

Genes

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 998-1016

  Danchin, Antoine ^a   Binder, Philippe M ^b   Noria, Stanislas ^c  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^c Fondation Fourmentin Guilbert   (France)

Author keywords

Ageing; Disorder; Fragility; Information; Isoaspartate

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; PROTEOME;

AGING; ANTIFRAGILITY; ATOM; BIOENGINEERING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL POPULATION; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY TINKERING; GENOMICS; ISOMERIZATION; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; RNA DEGRADATION; STRESS MANAGEMENT; SURVIVAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84055199606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes2040998     Document Type: Review

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