Life Is Complicated: Systems Biology Untangles Old Mysteries [Video]

For more than a century biologists made great strides in understanding the complex tapestry of life by tracing the smaller and shorter threads in its many patterns. This reductionist approach, which breaks complicated processes into their component parts to understand them better, has produced extraordinary advances. We take it for granted, for example, that DNA molecules–and not proteins–carry our genetic information, but that was a matter of huge debate and study in the early 20th century.

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Life Is Complicated: Systems Biology Untangles Old Mysteries [Video]