Biology coming full circle: Joining the whole and the parts

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-7

  Wikswo, John P ^a   Porter, Andrew P ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Graduate Theological Union   (United States)

Author keywords

Hermeneutic circle; physiology; reductionist vs. constructionist; synthetic biology; systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; GENOME; HERMENEUTICS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84920970027     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370214564534     Document Type: Article

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