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Recently published review [1] by the editor-in-chief of IJGS George Klir of Louie’s book “More than Life Itself” [2]. The essential quote from the review (with which I heartily agree):
My overall impression of the book is very positive. It is not only a comprehensive, rigorous and well-written overview of Rosen’s life-long contributions to theoretical […]
Aloisius Louie, author of More Than Life Itself [1], was one of a number of scientists asked to write an article [2] for the Journal of Cosmology commenting on Venter’s recent success in bioengineering [3]. Louie puts the Venter success into proper context:
The important and consequential Venter achievement is an impressive one in technology, but […]
A new paper, “So what do we really mean when we say that systems biology is holistic?” [1] discusses the relationship between holism, reductionism and systems biology.
Although the author does provide a historical overview of various interpretations of ‘holism’ and ‘reductionism’, the end result remains: a lack of clarity, specificity and agreement over the […]
From arXiv, a paper entitled “Stokesian jellyfish: Viscous locomotion of bilayer vesicles” [1] that I think Rashevsky would have approved of. The abstract:
Motivated by recent advances in vesicle engineering, we consider theoretically the locomotion of shape-changing bilayer vesicles at low Reynolds number. By modulating their volume and membrane composition, the vesicles can be made to […]
This PDF [1] contains the currently known errata for Aloisous Louie’s More Than Life Itself [2]. Aloisius has confirmed these. Fortunately, they are few, only typographical in nature, and none of them are too serious. If anyone happens to find any others, please let me know and I will update the PDF.
References
[1] ML Errata.pdf
[2] Louie, […]
Aloisius Louie’s new book, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology [1], is now listed on Amazon.com. The book is not yet available, but the listing states the publication date as May 31, 2009. On the product page, you can sign up to be notified by email when the book becomes available.
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