The theory of biological robustness and its implication in cancer.

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One of the essential issues in systems biology is to identify fundamental principles that govern living organisms at the system level. In this chapter, I argue that robustness is a fundamental feature of living systems where its relationship with evolution-trade-offs among robustness, fragility, resource demands, and performance-provides a possible framework for how biological systems have evolved and been...

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