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So it's basically the next step in biomedical science, to understand all the different kinds of cells in the body, and how they behave.
by wodencafe 10y ago
So it's basically the next step in biomedical science, to understand all the different kinds of cells in the body, and how they behave.
- amelius 10y agoYes. But be aware that molecular biologists are still trying to figure out what is happening at the molecular level within the cell [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pathway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pathway
- daughart 10y agoThese efforts are actually more related than you might think. One problem with the current state of molecular biology is that mechanisms are represented as graphs comprised of nodes (genes and molecules) and activities (inhibition, activation, catalysis, etc.); however, these graphs are generally representations at whole-genome scale. Within each single cell, only a subset of the genome is expressed, which greatly limits the size and complexity of the graph in actual incarnations within cells and therefore simplifies the problem.