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I think this is debatable. Probabably it reflects their common origin. This is a fascinating topic because stereotactic conformations provide the 3D complexity needed to avoid equillibrium and thus, to allow life exist in the first place and sustain itself.

In chronic myelogenous leukemia, targeting the specific mutation k-kit actually cures the disease. Why? LDH is not always elevated in cancer. It is a product of cell destruction and its elevation indicates high tumor burden and advanced disease... As far as i know, there are no cancer treatments...

Targeting specific molecular pathways has been proven a difficult issue, due to the complexity of molecular cross-talks, which enables cancer cells to escape treatment. Immunotherapy (checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive immunotherapy) is currently the most promising area and most research...

Great news-big day for science! I know its still early, but can someone say which theories are hurt, (and which ones are favored) the most by these new findings?

I didn't know that was the mainstream viewpoint! In that case i don't understand why so many efforts to come up with a theory with respect to the origin of life, since the answer is simple, since everytime organic complexity will naturally do its job, throught the survival and selection of the...

I don’t know exactly, but I quess every knowledge is important. However, a general idea on how this knowledge can be exploited is: 1)With respect to medicine, if biology is chemistry, then this leaves the option to someday (although maybe not in the near future) know the full map of chemical...

I don't agree. I think there are many practical and theoretical implications behind this categorization (e.g. biological experiments, medicine, theories about the origin of life, etc). Think about it.. Its not that simple. Darwinism is a concept with wider implications. The general idea is that...

No! A system that only includes the sum of living cells. It is not an isolated system, but can it have entropy anyway? Is this entropy increasing or decreasing over time? If increasing, isn't this a sign that biology is indeed very close to chemistry?

A cell as a system has intrinsic entropy, right? However, cells never emerge or exist in isolation. They are a part of a larger system that includes all other cells, plus anything living (altogether called “life as whole”). This larger system has some intrinsic energy too…It's like a flask of...

Complex chemistry, and especially organic chemistry with the myriads possible combinations of isoforms, if sustained for a long time, theoretically in the long term only those reactions that sustain themselves will prevail and will be in the final mixture. But what is life other that a sum of...

I am skeptical with assumptions like “oh, life sustains order, because for instance, a cell is much more ordered than its components, so life is about sustaining order and avoiding chaos” or things like that. I think that this is maybe not the whole picture, because we forget that a cell never...

Questions: a)How easy it is for these theoretical interpretations to be experimentally tested? b)Entropic changes of life as a whole or at a local level are a-priori theoretical assumptions or are they backed by experimental evidence?

Chemistry can indeed break down into physics. However there are difficulties into breaking down biology into (selected) complex organic chemistry, because there is a problem mainly with respect to thermodynamics and creation of order… But can we overcome this uncompatibility one day if really...

So you mean that biology maybe is very complicated chemistry that was selected? And what about thermodynamics then?

What is the difference between chemistry and biology (If any?)