Ahead of the curve :hidden breakthroughs in the biosciences /

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"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Introduction -- part I. Hindsight -- 1. Medicine -- Case study 1. wash your hands -- Case study 2. chromosomes and cancerpart II. Foresight -- 2. Physics in cell and developmental biology -- Case study 3. Development employs forces -- Case study 4. Depolarization induces neuron division -- Case study 5. Cells talk to each other via electromagnetism -- Case study 6. Ion currents regulate cell polarity3. Inheritance -- Case study 7. Induced eye-defects can be passed on to future generations -- Case study 8. Heritability via the cytoskeleton -- Case study 9. Don't blame mom -- Case study 10. Memory survives decapitation4. Physiology and cancer -- Case study 11. Random expression profiles predict breast cancer -- Case study 12. The bright side of infection -- Case study 13. Innervation suppresses tumorigenesis5. Mathematics and modeling -- Case study 14. Top-down causation : not all the work is done by molecules -- Case study 15. Standard deviation not S.E.M. -- Case study 16. Field models of pattern formation -- Case study 17. Noise and prediction in biology.This unique book is a compendium of carefully curated published papers in the biosciences, which have (or will) precipitate a profound change in prevailing paradigms and research programs. A mix of new and classic papers, it shows the limitations of current thought or identifies novel vistas for investigations that have not yet been explored. The purpose of the book is to highlight scientific gems, most unrecognized, that suggest revisions to key pillars of thought in the biological sciences and further the education of young scientists. This will be achieved by including reprints of papers that demonstrate counter-paradigm, novel directions for future research featuring commentary from current, notable researchers in a variety of areas.Students at all levels; researchers in academia and industry who want or need to know the history of their fields or who seek new approaches and ideas for their own research; historians of science.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader. or Kindle reader.Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Professor, Department of Biology, and the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University. Dany Spencer Adams is a research associate professor, Department of Biology, and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology affiliate, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, Tufts University.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 13, 2017).

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1 electronic document (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9780750313261

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574.09

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Biophysics.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics.
Life sciences.
Discoveries in science.

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Michael Levin, Dany Spencer Adams.

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