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Index
Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Contents
Author’s Note
Preface: The Big Idea
PART I: THE BASICS
Chapter 1: Seeing the Systems in Biology: Technological Advances Are Letting Scientists Understand Living Things in a New Way
Chapter 2: Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Common Patterns and Principles of Natural Systems
Chapter 3: America’s Next Top Mathematical Model: Understanding Complex Systems Sometimes Requires Math
Chapter 4: Ignoring the Devil in the Details: Robustness, Prediction, Noise, and the General Properties of Systems
PART II: CELLS, ORGANISMS, AND ECOSYSTEMS
Chapter 5: Beyond Tom Hanks’s Nose: Sequencing Technology Is Enabling Scientists to Study All of a Cell’s Genes at Once
Chapter 6: The Smells of the Father: RNA, DNA Margin Notes, and the Other Missing Parts of the Cellular System
Chapter 7: Growing Pains: How Cells and Tissues Coordinate Development, from Egg to Adulthood
Chapter 8: No Organism Is an Island: The Interactions between Individuals and Species that Shape Ecosystems
PART III: APPLICATIONS
Chapter 9: Build Me a Buttercup: Using Synthetic Biology to Make Diesel Fuel, Programmable Cells, and Malaria Medicine
Chapter 10: More Than Just 86 Billion Neurons: The Science of the Brain, and How Connections among Neurons Make It Work
Chapter 11: Death and Taxes: Aging Is Governed by an Organism-Wide System that We Might Be Able to Manipulate
Chapter 12: Your Microbiome and You: The Body Is Host to Trillions of Microbes that Affect Human Health
Chapter 13: This Is Your System on Drugs: Tweaking Biological Systems to Produce Better Medical Treatments
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
A Note on the Author
Copyright
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