Complex human disorders and molecular system engineering: Historical perspective and potential impacts

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Abstract

The challenging nature of complex human disorders has taught us that we can not untangle a disorder unless we understand how the "engine" of molecular systems works. After learning the basic physiology of different organs in the human body, a "molecular revolution" occurred, which has now generated a huge amount of information regarding the function of individual molecules in human cells. The difficult task, however, is to understand how thousands of molecules communicate and work together to deliver a specific function, and more importantly, what goes wrong when the system fails and causes different diseases. The emerging field of systems biology is now opening the door for engineers, to join molecular biologists and enter the era of molecular biomedical engineering. ©2009 IEEE.

Identifier

77950981255 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781424432967]

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Engineering the Future of Biomedicine Embc 2009

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334895

PubMed ID

19965143

First Page

1083

Last Page

1085

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