Ahead of the curve : hidden breakthroughs in the biosciences / Michael Levin, Dany Spencer Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Michael, 1969- author.

Adams, Dany Spencer, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP expanding physics

IOP (Series). Release 3.

[IOP release 3]

IOP expanding physics, 2053-2563

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in science.

Life sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Hidden breakthroughs in the biosciences.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2016]

System Details:

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader. or Kindle reader.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

5. 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.

4. 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 tumorigenesis

3. 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 decapitation

part 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 polarity

Preface

Introduction

part I. Hindsight

1. Medicine

Case study 1. wash your hands

Case study 2. chromosomes and cancer

Notes:

"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 13, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750313285

9780750313261

OCLC:

971508839

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.