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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday, in Part 1, I wrote about the problems of trying to define homelessness and how using a point-in-time count can be misleading when trying to formulate policy. The point-in-time count hardly ...

Ever since Bernie Sanders’s insurgent run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, a specter has haunted left-liberal debate: the specter of “class reductionism.” Left-identitarians and ...

We have arrived at the post-reductionist era of biochemistry. For protein science, this means the collective consciousness has been elevated and there is wide acceptance that we must consider the ...

When conceptualizing misophonia, it helps to shift your thinking away from that which is reductionist. Reductionist thinking may be necessary for scientists to break down that which they seek to ...

It is well known that the immune system focuses on and responds to very few representative immunodominant epitopes from invading pathogenic insults such as infectious agents and antigenic targets in ...

Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Eternal, has been at the receiving end of criticism ever since he suggested gravity is a primary driver of biological ageing. The Liver Doc (Dr Abby Philips), a hepatologist ...