A theory of biological relativity: no privileged level of causation

D Noble - Interface focus, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Must higher level biological processes always be derivable from lower level data and
mechanisms, as assumed by the idea that an organism is completely defined by its …

Systems biology, proteomics, and the future of health care: toward predictive, preventative, and personalized medicine

AD Weston, L Hood - Journal of proteome research, 2004‏ - ACS Publications
The emergence of systems biology is bringing forth a new set of challenges for advancing
science and technology. Defining ways of studying biological systems on a global level …

The “domestication syndrome” in mammals: a unified explanation based on neural crest cell behavior and genetics

AS Wilkins, RW Wrangham, WT Fitch - Genetics, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Charles Darwin, while trying to devise a general theory of heredity from the observations of
animal and plant breeders, discovered that domesticated mammals possess a distinctive …

[HTML][HTML] Circuitry and dynamics of human transcription factor regulatory networks

S Neph, AB Stergachis, A Reynolds, R Sandstrom… - Cell, 2012‏ - cell.com
The combinatorial cross-regulation of hundreds of sequence-specific transcription factors
(TFs) defines a regulatory network that underlies cellular identity and function. Here we use …

[کتاب][B] The regulatory genome: gene regulatory networks in development and evolution

EH Davidson - 2010‏ - books.google.com
Gene regulatory networks are the most complex, extensive control systems found in nature.
The interaction between biology and evolution has been the subject of great interest in …

The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

E Sodergren, GM Weinstock, EH Davidson… - Science, 2006‏ - science.org
We report the sequence and analysis of the 814-megabase genome of the sea urchin
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, a model for developmental and systems biology. The …

Gene regulatory networks for development

M Levine, EH Davidson - Proceedings of the National …, 2005‏ - National Acad Sciences
The genomic program for development operates primarily by the regulated expression of
genes encoding transcription factors and components of cell signaling pathways. This …

[HTML][HTML] Apical constriction: a cell shape change that can drive morphogenesis

JM Sawyer, JR Harrell, G Shemer… - Developmental …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Biologists have long recognized that dramatic bending of a cell sheet may be driven by even
modest shrinking of the apical sides of cells. Cell shape changes and tissue movements like …

The coherent feedforward loop serves as a sign-sensitive delay element in transcription networks

S Mangan, A Zaslaver, U Alon - Journal of molecular biology, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Recent analysis of the structure of transcription regulation networks revealed several
“network motifs”: regulatory circuit patterns that occur much more frequently than in …

Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis

Y Lazebnik - Cancer cell, 2002‏ - cell.com
As a freshly minted Assistant Professor, I feared that everything in my field would be
discovered before I even had a chance to set up my laboratory. Indeed, the field of …