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The concept of mechanism in biology [PDF]
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2012 The concept of mechanism in biology has three distinct meanings. It may refer to a philosophical thesis about the nature of life and biology ('mechanicism'), to the internal workings of a machine-like structure ('machine mechanism'), or to the causal explanation of a particular phenomenon ('causal mechanism').
Daniel J Nicholson
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Mechanism and Finality in Biology
Azafea: Revista de Filosofía, 2011 This article defends a teleological approach which is compatible with our scientific image. It is held that organisms can be depicted as autonomous systems in which occurs autorregulation processes and exhibits a teleological behaviour oriented to an ...
Andrés Luis JAUME RODRÍGUEZ
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Identification of quiescent FOXC2+ spermatogonial stem cells in adult mammals
eLife, 2023 In adult mammals, spermatogenesis embodies the complex developmental process from spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) to spermatozoa. At the top of this developmental hierarchy lie a series of SSC subpopulations.
Zhipeng Wang +19 more
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Cancer Nanotechnology, 2023 Background Combining the power of magnetic guidance and the biological activities of stem cells transformed into biohybrid microrobots holds great promise for the treatment of several diseases including cancer.
Rebekah Anamarie Gundersen +10 more
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SPF45/RBM17-dependent, but not U2AF-dependent, splicing in a distinct subset of human short introns
Nature Communications, 2021 The length distribution of human pre-mRNA introns is very extensive. The authors demonstrate that splicing in a subset of short introns is dependent on SPF45 (RBM17), which replaces authentic U2AF-heterodimer on the truncated poly-pyrimidine tracts and ...
Kazuhiro Fukumura +7 more
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SARS-CoV-2: from its discovery to genome structure, transcription, and replication
Cell & Bioscience, 2021 SARS-CoV-2 is an extremely contagious respiratory virus causing adult atypical pneumonia COVID-19 with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). SARS-CoV-2 has a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA (+RNA) genome of ~ 29.9 kb and exhibits significant ...
Ayslan Castro Brant +4 more
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Systems biology and mechanics of growth [PDF]
WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine, 2015 In contrast to inert systems, living biological systems have the advantage to adapt to their environment through growth and evolution. This transfiguration is evident during embryonic development, when the predisposed need to grow allows form to follow function.
Eskandari, Mona, Kuhl, Ellen
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Europhysics News, 2020 Mechanics plays a key role in life, from simple tasks like providing protective shielding to highly complex ones such as cell division. To understand mechanical properties on the organism level, we need to zoom in to its constituent cells, then zoom back out to see how they collectively build tissues.
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Mechanisms in molecular biology [PDF]
, 2017 The new mechanistic philosophy is divided into two largely disconnected projects. One deals with a metaphysical inquiry into how mechanisms relate to issues such as causation, capacities and levels of organization, while the other deals with epistemic issues related to the discovery of mechanisms and the intelligibility of mechanistic representations ...
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Ferroptosis: mechanisms, biology and role in disease
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 The research field of ferroptosis has seen exponential growth over the past few years, since the term was coined in 2012. This unique modality of cell death, driven by iron-dependent phospholipid peroxidation, is regulated by multiple cellular metabolic pathways, including redox homeostasis, iron handling, mitochondrial activity and metabolism of amino
Xuejun Jiang +2 more
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