Sunday, July 22, 2012

[WATCH]: Network Medicine

Project: barabasilab.neu.edu www.barabasilab.com http Act 1: Network-based approaches to human disease have multiple potential biological and clinical applications. The first step in exploring the interplay between networks and human diseases, we need a comprehensive and accurate molecular and phenotypic networks . Network within our cells elucidates how our genes and molecules interact with each other. But how do we connect this stunning map of our inner cellular interconnectedness to human disease? To grasp the magnitude of the problem, let us look at the current network of a human cell. Act 2: To see how the network map relates to disease, we start with Asthma, the most common chronic respiratory disease, affecting 17 million US

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