Imagine, if you will, a headline in your morning paper that shouts: “Terrorist attacks destroy scores of coal-fired electric generation plants.” The following story might read: “While the attacks affect plants in 26 states

Systems biology is a new field you’ve probably never heard of that should change the way we live. It studies and models how different parts of life work, interact, communicate and operate together. It provides a very different way of thinking than the standard reductionist approach in the biological sciences, where smaller and smaller parts are studied in more minute detail.