Reductionist approaches, by their very nature, make problems more solvable, but create the challenge of solutions that might not be generalizable. Molecular biology would seem to have learned this ...

Not everyone is celebrating this year's fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick's achievement: the deciphering of the double helix structure of DNA. To some, the molecular biology of DNA is a symbol ...

Fuelled by both intrigue and narcissism, humans have a long history of trying to understand themselves. To comprehend something complex, we humans like to take a subject apart and study what we find ...

In their native environments, proteins perform their biological roles in highly concentrated viscous solutions and in complex networks with numerous partners. Yet for many years, the normal practice ...

When conceptualizing misophonia, it helps to shift your thinking away from that which is reductionist. Reductionist thinking may be necessary for scientists to break down that which they seek to ...

Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Eternal, has been at the receiving end of criticism ever since he suggested gravity is a primary driver of biological ageing. The Liver Doc (Dr Abby Philips), a hepatologist ...