• PLoS medicine · May 2006

    The limits of reductionism in medicine: could systems biology offer an alternative?

    • Andrew C Ahn, Muneesh Tewari, Chi-Sang Poon, and Russell S Phillips.
    • Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. aahn@hms.harvard.edu
    • PLoS Med. 2006 May 1; 3 (6): e208e208.

    AbstractIn the first of a two part series, Ahn and colleagues discuss the reductionist approach pervading medicine and explain how a systems approach (as advocated by systems biology) may complement reductionism.

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