01508nam a2200265Ia 4500 TVU_11316 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0199228361 9780199228362 eng 284 D395 Noble, Denis The Denis Noble Oxford,New York University Press Oxford 2008 xiii 153 p. ill. 20 cm Noble asserts, is a kind of music, a symphonic interplay between genes, cells, organs, body, and environment. He weaves this musical metaphor throughout this personal and deeply lyrical work, illuminating ideas that might otherwise be daunting to non-scientists. In elegant prose, Noble sets out a cutting-edge alternative to the gene's eye view, offering a radical switch of perception in which genes are seen as prisoners and the organism itself is a complex system of many interacting levels. In his more expansive view, life emerges as a process, the ebb and flow of activity in an intricate web of connections. He introduces readers to the realm of systems biology, a field that has been growing in strength in the past decade. Noble, himself one of the founders of this field, argues modern systems biology may be the view we need to adopt to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of life Christian life Denis Noble Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh