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At the microscopic edge of biology, researchers have uncovered an organism so stripped down that it forces a rethink of what ...

In fact, the present efforts in the drug development industry to simulate organismal function still ignore the very elementary parts, and instead employ the traditional “top-down” modeling approach of ...