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March 2011: Highlights from Recent Review Issues on Systems Biology and Addiction

Mar 17, 201124 min
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Episode description

Cellular "coin-flipping;" Jim Collins explains how cells make decisions (0:00), the vicious cycle of treating drug addiction as a criminal behavior, instead of a medical condition (8:23), and how small molecules can help uncover signaling crosstalk, when genetic strategies fail (16:56).

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