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 ...

Modern nutrition often focuses on single nutrients, yet food and the body operate as complex systems. Health columnist Seth ...

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 ...