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Synthetic biology—putting engineering into biology [PDF]
, 2006 Synthetic biology is interpreted as the engineering-driven building of increasingly complex biological entities for novel applications. Encouraged by progress in the design of artificial gene networks, de novo DNA synthesis and protein engineering, we ...
Heinemann, Matthias,, Panke, Sven,
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
Population Ecology, EarlyView.We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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'Causa efficiens' versus 'Causa finalis': functional explanations in biology [PDF]
, 2011 Biology differs from most sciences in its particular way of dealing with the term ‘function’. On the one hand, questions like ‘What is the function of a trait x?’ seem to be perfectly legitimate, realizing that (most) biologists acknowledge that ...
Kosolosky, Laszlo
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Noise in multiple sclerosis: unwanted and necessary [PDF]
, 2014 As our knowledge about the etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) increases, deterministic paradigms appear insufficient to describe the pathogenesis of the disease, and the impression is that stochastic phenomena (i.e.
BORDI, Isabella +7 more
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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks
Population Ecology, EarlyView.Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu +3 more
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Specificity, propagation, and memory of pericentric heterochromatin
Molecular Systems Biology, 2014 The cell establishes heritable patterns of active and silenced chromatin via interacting factors that set, remove, and read epigenetic marks. To understand how the underlying networks operate, we have dissected transcriptional silencing in pericentric ...
Katharina Müller‐Ott +11 more
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Reduced efficacy of a Src kinase inhibitor in crowded protein solution
Nature Communications, 2021 The intracellular compartment is a crowded environment. Here, the authors use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to assess inhibitor binding to c-Src kinase and show how ligand binding pathways differ in crowded and dilute protein solutions ...
Kento Kasahara +10 more
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Building Block and Building Rule: Dual Descriptor Method for Biological Sequence Analysis [PDF]
, 2008 The emergence of “Systems Biology” in recent years highlights the systematic viewpoint of bio-system modeling. Building on such a background, Dual Descriptor Method, a generic methodology for biological sequence analysis is proposed. From a
Bin-Guang Ma
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Geographic variation in walking activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
Population Ecology, EarlyView.This study examined whether there is geographic variation in field populations, focusing on the moving activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Results showed significant differences in moving activity among field populations but no correlation with latitude or meteorological factors.
Kentarou Matsumura
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Nature Communications, 2018 The mechanisms of PARP inhibitor (PARPi) resistance are poorly understood. Here the authors employ a CRISPR mutagenesis approach to identify PARP1 mutants causing PARPi resistance and find that PARP1 mutations are tolerated in BRCA1 mutated cells ...
Stephen J. Pettitt +22 more
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