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Embracing complexity, inching closer to reality.
Science's STKE : signal transduction knowledge environment - 2 Aug 2005
Schadt Eric E, Sachs Alan, Friend Stephen
Abstract excerpt
Drugs designed against targets in presumably simple linear signaling pathways found to be associated with disease are often less effective than predicted. One reason for this is the overly simplistic view of the molecular mechanisms underlying common human diseases. This viewpoint is a consequence of biological reductionism, brought about by the need to form a basic understanding of the fundamental attributes of...
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