Physics takes another stab at biological design principles

Physics takes another stab at biological design principles

Physicists taking a first principle approach to biological research are making discoveries with broad implications for systems biology. In an era when high-throughput, hypothesis-free science makes most of the noise, pioneering physicists are stirring things up by taking a first principle approach to investigate how noise in gene expression impacts living organisms. They use statistical laws of...

NEWS AND VIEWS Physics takes another stab at biological design principles

Physicists taking a first principle approach to biological research are making discoveries with broad implications for systems biology. In an era when high-throughput, hypothesis-free science makes most of the noise, pioneering physicists are stirring things up by taking a first principle approach to investigate how noise in gene expression impacts living organisms. They use statistical laws of...

Design principles of biological circuits

Pretrial Release in the 1990 s : Texas Takes Another Look at Nonfinancial Release Conditions

The conditions under which an individual accused of a crime can remain at liberty prior to the resolution of the criminal charge against him have evolved over time in the American system of criminal justice.' For most of this country's history, pretrial release conditions were almost exclusively defined in financial terms, i.e., the amount of "bail" a defendant or his surety was required to ple...

Physics and Leibnizs Principles

Leibniz’s principles made for an elegant and coherent philosophy. In part metaphysical, in part methodological, they addressed fundamental questions in the treatment of symmetry, in the relationship of physics to mathematics, in logic that are if anything even more pressing today than they were in Leibniz’s time. As I shall read them, they also expressed a distinctive and uncompromising form of...