Sentences with phrase «within systems biology»

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The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

My cancer systems biology team at the University of California, Merced, is tackling diagnosis and treatment of therapy - resistant cancers by elucidating the network of changes within cells as a way to identify new drug targets and circumvent cancer resistance.

Nicholas Brereton, a research fellow at Université de Montréal's Plant Biology Research Institute and senior author of the study, adds that «our initial mind - set was that bioinformatics and biology could be more profoundly integrated to see the diversity of function within a challenged root system.

The purpose is to begin installing a system of planetary housekeeping that can preserve the Earth's atmosphere, soils and biology in a state fit to sustain the 10 billion people who will be living on it within a century.

With respect to technology development, the group is leveraging recent advances in nanotechnology and chemical biology to establish a host of core, cross-disciplinary platforms that will collectively enable them to extensively profile and precisely control cells and their interactions within the context of complex systems.

Alongside Michael Pawlyn, leading the course will be Julian Vincent, Professor of Biomimetics at the University of Bath, who will focus on materials and structures in biology; Graham Dodd, Director at Ove Arup & Partners, will look at system, composite and structured material strategies with examples of each in nature and in design; Neil Thomas, Director of Atelier One structural engineers, will consider the role of engineering in everyday life and objects and how it can go wrong; Andy Middleton, management consultant and director of TYF EcoSapiens, will look at the role of the design industry within business and society.