Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich
As systems biology efforts heat up to map biology at higher resolution, greater breadth and more modalities, Fabian Theis is pushing the frontier from mapping to predicting to controlling biology
As systems biology efforts heat up to map biology at higher resolution, greater breadth and more modalities, Fabian Theis is pushing the frontier from mapping to predicting to controlling biology
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