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Education and Competency Rich in Genomics and Ethics Is a Necessity for Healthcare Professionals in the Era of PM
Advances in genomics are anticipated to contribute to the development of more effective, personalized approaches to the prevention and treatment of...
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The Role of Information in Evolutionary Biology
The Modern Synthesis has received criticism for its purported gene-centrism. That criticism relies on a concept of the gene as a unit of...
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Bioethical Decision Making and Genome Editing
Changing the genetic makeup of living beings is expected to transform several fields of biomedicine giving rise to a number of ethical challenges...
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Relevance of PM in Infectious and Non-communicable Chronic Diseases and Pandemics
Precision medicine (PM) in the form of Pharmacogenomics (PGx) promises the use of diagnostic testing to provide the best clinical decisions based on...
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The Artificial Womb (AW)
In the previous chapter, I noted that reprogeneticsReprogenetics, the combination of genetic interventionGenetic intervention with...
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Biological Modularity and the Origins of Agency
From cells and multicellular bodies to offices, empires, or computer programs, complex entities around us usually consist of numerous largely...
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In the Light of the Environment: Evolution Through Biogrammars Not Programmers
Biological understanding of human cognitive functions is incomplete because of failure to understand the evolution of complex functions and organisms...
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Jean Gayon on the “Modes” of Cultural Evolution
Cultural evolution is the theory of evolution by means of natural selectionSelection in the realm of culture. The development of cultural evolution...
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Social and Ethical Implications of Integrating Precision Medicine into Healthcare
Precision Medicine with the use of genomic information can provide tailored screening and prevention strategies in healthcare if it is used in...
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Clinical Significance of Precision Medicine – Genomics and Pharmacogenomics (PGx)
Precision medicine in the form of Pharmacogenomics (PGx) promises personalized medicine rather than the established “one size fits all” approach to...
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Infertility in Relation to Japanese Parental Norms
The characteristics of fertility treatment in post-World War II Japan can be summarized in four points. First, marriage and having children are...
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Modifying the Environment or Human Nature? What is the Right Choice for Space Travel and Mars Colonisation?
As space travel and intentions to colonise other planets are becoming the norm in public debate and scholarship, we must also confront the technical...
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Adaptationism and the Author
Adaptationism endorses the gene as the primary locus of change (leading to new structures in evolution). This functionalist position is consistent...
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Feed the futureland: an actor-based approach to studying food security projects
Critical development and food studies scholars argue that the current food security paradigm is emblematic of a ‘New Green Revolution’, characterized...
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Philosophy in Medical Education
In recent years, philosophy of science has increasingly engaged with scientific practice and with the distinctive features of various specific...
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Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge
Emphatic claims of a “microbiome revolution” aside, the study of the gut microbiota and its role in organismal development and evolution is a central...
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Adding Agency to Tinbergen’s Four Questions
This year marks the 60th year anniversary of the publication of Niko Tinbergen’s “On aims and methods of ethology” which remains influential among...
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The Complexity of Tumor Heterogeneity : Limitations and Challenges of the Pharmacogenomics in Cancer Treatment
One of the most important current applications of personalized medicine is the study of the correlations between genetic variations and the emergence...
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Biological Codes: A Field Guide for Code Hunters
This article presents an update on known and unknown biological codes . While the genetic code has been recognized as a code for decades, most other...
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A hapless mathematical contribution to biology
This is the story, told in the light of a new analysis of historical data, of a mathematical biology problem that was explored in the 1930s in Thomas...
