The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.
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Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.
To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
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