The hidden simplicity of biology

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society

• Publication date

  2016-09-09

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics

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  DOI 10.1088/0034-4885/79/10/102601PMID 27608530
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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