dc.contributor.author | Ehmoser-Sinner, Eva-Kathrin | |
dc.contributor.author | Darren Tan, Cherng-Wen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-11T07:29:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-11T07:29:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-319-73123-0 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.mksu.ac.ke/handle/123456780/6344 | |
dc.description.abstract | The objective of synthetic bioarchitectures as a field of research cannot be confined yet as
it belongs to the converging sciences, still emerging; however, let us foresee one of the
most relevant objectives of this field: the communication of life with synthetic matter.
What can we learn by talking to nature in the language of molecules? We can interfere with
biological pathways in a much more “compatible” format than has ever been possible before.
For example, thinking about chemotherapy we might apply the German saying: “den
Teufel mit dem Beelzebub austreiben”—which means that chemotherapy is about trading
off: lacking specific tumor markers results in the attempt to stop proliferation in general
and the result appears as treating “bad with similar bad”: we kill various cells in the course
of chemotherapy and eventually we succeed by hitting cancerous cells harder than benign
tissue. The side effects are of course enormous and undesired. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
dc.title | Lessons on Synthetic Bioarchitectures | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Interaction of Living Matter with Synthetic Structural Analogues | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |