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dc.contributor.authorEhmoser-Sinner, Eva-Kathrin
dc.contributor.authorDarren Tan, Cherng-Wen
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-11T07:29:08Z
dc.date.available2020-06-11T07:29:08Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-73123-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.mksu.ac.ke/handle/123456780/6344
dc.description.abstractThe 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.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.titleLessons on Synthetic Bioarchitecturesen_US
dc.title.alternativeInteraction of Living Matter with Synthetic Structural Analoguesen_US
dc.typeBooken_US


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