Ahead of the Curve: Hidden breakthroughs in the biosciences: Volume 1

by Michael Levin (Editor), Dany Spencer Adams (Editor)

Overview

This unique book is a compendium of carefully curated published papers in the biosciences, which have (or will) precipitate a profound change in prevailing paradigms and research programs. A mix of new and classic papers, it shows the limitations of current thought or identifies novel vistas for investigations that have not yet been explored. The purpose of the book is to highlight scientific gems, most unrecognized, that suggest revisions to key pillars of thought in the biological sciences and further the education of young scientists. This will be achieved by including reprints of papers that demonstrate counter-paradigm, novel directions for future research featuring commentary from current, notable researchers in a variety of areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750313261
Publisher:	Institute of Physics Publishing
Publication date:	12/30/2016
Series:	IOP Expanding Physics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Professor, Department of Biology, and the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, USA.

Dany Adams is a research associate professor, Department of Biology, and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology affiliate, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, Tufts University, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Author biographies Part I Hindsight 1 Medicine Case Study 1: Wash Your Hands Case Study 2: Chromosomes and Cancer Part II Foresight 2 Physics in cell and developmental biology Case Study 3: Development Employs Forces Case Study 4: Depolarization Induces Neuron Division Case Study 5: Cells Talk to Each Other via Electromagnetism Case Study 6: Ion Currents Regulate Cell Polarity 3 Inheritance Case Study 7: Induced Eye-Defects Can Be Passed On to Future Generations Case Study 8: Heritability via the Cytoskeleton: Non-Genomic Inheritance Case Study 9: Don t Blame Mom Case Study 10: Memory Survives Decapitation 4 Physiology and cancer Case Study 11: Random Expression Profiles Predict Breast Cancer Case Study 12: The Bright Side of Infection Case Study 13: Innervation Suppresses Tumorigenesis 6 Mathematics and modelling Case Study 14: Top-Down Causation: Not All The Work Is Done By Molecules Case Study 15: Standard Deviation, Not S.E.M. Case Study 16: Field Models of Pattern Formation Case Study 17: Noise and Predictions