Denis Noble

British biologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Born 1936 · age 89

Denis Noble is a British physiologist and biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed professor emeritus and co-director of computational physiology.

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2017“The Principle of Biological Relativity... simply states that there is no privileged level of causation in biological systems.”In their words9 November 2017Denis Noble on the impact of computational biology on evolutionary biology (9 November 2017) voicesfromoxfordUK channel, YouTube.Read the whole statement

2012“The music of life has no conductor.”In their wordsOBC | The Music of Life (2012) Out of the Box Conference, Maribor Slavinia, Out of the box Seminar channel, YouTube.Read the whole statement

2007The Paton LectureAward2004Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize LectureAward1993Baly MedalAward1983Annual Review Prize LectureAward1936Born16 November 1936

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Every time a is needed, the appropriate chemical 'code' is 'read off' the ; this gives the pattern of chemical elements that will make that what it is.
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A living cell is a continuous action-packed drama. ...Complex chains of molecular interaction happen again and again. We call them 'pathways'...
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The DNA causes the proteins, the proteins cause the cells, and so on. ...The inside story, is that the information coded in the genes is being expressed.
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