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Steve Laufmann

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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›
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New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum

This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Read More ›
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Join Us: Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, April 23-25, in Southern California

The most spectacular example of an engineered living system is the human body, toward the invention of which the whole cosmos appears to have been very carefully aimed. Read More ›
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Undeniable

As Undeniable Debuts in Paperback, Frontiers in Biology Demonstrate Axe’s “Functional Coherence”

Three brand new avenues of scientific discovery appear to need nothing from Darwinism. Read More ›
Victor Borge
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Design at Your Fingertips: Researchers Struggle to Model Sense of Touch

Your hands feel in detail thanks to tens of thousands of sensors, and detailed information encoded by their positions and firing times. Read More ›
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Raise Your Hand if You Know How Complex Raising Your Hand Is

What school teacher has not asked a question in class that half a dozen children want to answer? Read More ›
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“Life Is a Discontinuity in the Universe”

There are 37 trillion cells in the human body, some 200 cell types, and 12,000+ specialized proteins. How does it all come together? Read More ›
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Human Biology
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The “Exquisite Design” of Human Biology

There is a certain characteristic shallowness to the storytelling exercise that is evolutionary biology. Read More ›

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