Sentences with phrase «whole organism biology»

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Developments in the «new biology,» which deals with wholes of increasing complexity in the organization of interrelated parts rather than with discrete and isolated segments, especially in molecular biology and the growing field of ecology, with its discoveries about the basic interdependence of living organisms with other living organisms and with its larger environmental context, have further undermined these traditions assumptions.

His group employs both the bottom - up, molecular biology approach and the top - down, organism approach, hoping that by «having two ways of thinking in the lab and allowing people to share thoughts and projects,... we could probably be an excellent lab and try to integrate the whole spectrum,» he says.

So far it is just a prototype, but if its proponents are to be believed, future versions could revolutionise biology, allowing us to evolve new organisms or rewrite whole genomes with ease.

So certainly reductionism has great strengths — it's sort of the super highway of biology but it also has limitations in the sense that you need to combine it with synthesis with an approach that looks at the whole organism, that looks at complex behavior and that looks at complex neurocircuitry.

A central question now confronting virtually all fields of biology is whether scientists can deduce from this torrent of molecular data how systems and whole organisms work.

Synthetic biology — the emerging science of creating genomes, cellular components and even whole cellular organisms from scratch — confronts regulators with some tricky problems.

Although experimental mammalian genetics with the use of ES cells and the techniques pioneered by my co-awardees is now well founded and used, there is still much to be learned and much interesting research in store about what genes really do in the context of the real biology of the whole organism in a complex environment.

In their eyes, this single, unspecified piece of industry - funded research debunks three decades of research, research that (by whole - organism biology standards) was highly - funded throughout the 1990s.