Ahead of the Curve: Hidden Breakthroughs in the Biosciences

by Michael Levine, Dany Adams

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750313278
Publisher:	Iop Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	02/28/2017
Series:	IOP Expanding Physics
Pages:	150
Sales rank:	968,455
Product dimensions:	7.46(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.81(d)

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.

Dany Spencer 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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgements x

Author biographies xi

Introduction xii

Part I Hindsight

1 Medicine 1-1

Case Study 1 Wash Your Hands 1-1

Case Study 2 Chromosomes and Cancer 1-4

Part II Foresight

2 Physics in cell and developmental biology 2-1

Case Study 3 Development Employs Forces 2-1

Case Study 4 Depolarization Induces Neuron Division 2-16

Case Study 5 Cells Talk to Each Other via Electromagnetism 2-29

Case Study 6 Ion Currents Regulate Cell Polarity 2-39

3 Inheritance 3-1

Case Study 7 Induced Eye-Defects Can Be Passed On to Future Generations 3-1

Case Study 8 Heritability Via the Cytoskeleton 3-20

Case Study 9 Don't Blame Mom 3-47

Case Study 10 Memory Survives Decapitation 3-59

4 Physiology and cancer 4-1

Case Study 11 Random Expression Profiles Predict Breast Cancer 4-1

Case Study 12 The Bright Side of Infection 4-22

Case Study 13 Innervation Suppresses Tumorigenesis 4-34

5 Mathematics and modeling 5-1

Case Study 14 Top-Down Causation: Not All The Work Is Done By Molecules 5-1