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How we become ill
Author(s) -
Finzer Patrick
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201743948
Subject(s) - analogy , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , critically ill , medicine , intensive care medicine , pathology , epistemology , philosophy
Biological systems from single cells to whole organisms show emergent properties that are characteristic of complex systems. Understanding the emergence of new properties and the principles that govern it can help us to understand complex diseases and improve early diagnostic.