In last weeks blog, I wrote about home remedies and how they are being researched with a new approach: systems biology. I figured why not elaborate more on this for my next blog.
Systems biology is a type of research that focuses on the whole instead of the sum of the individual parts. it is a collaborative type of approach the combines the disciplines of several scientific fields such as: biology, computer science, engineering, bioinformatics, and physics to name a few. By using all of these disciplines researchers hope to predict how biological systems change over time depending on the conditions they are faced with. By being able to design multiscale models, scientists are able to discover "new biomarkers for disease, stratify patients based on unique genetic profiles, and target drugs and other treatments". There is a whole institute dedicated to the approach and the research of using systems biology. Institute of Systems Biology, ISB. To learn more about system's biology and how it is being used in several studies you can go to the following website which also includes an informative video describing system's biology.
https://www.systemsbiology.org/about/what-is-systems-biology/
This sounds really fascinating! I've never heard of systems biology before. What's the history behind systems biology? How did it come about? What are some important findings of systems biology research?
ReplyDeleteI would echo Clarra's question? Can you give an example, maybe even in terms of your previous blog post? This only half answers the question I asked there.
ReplyDeleteI would echo Clarra's question? Can you give an example, maybe even in terms of your previous blog post? This only half answers the question I asked there.
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