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New Approach to Understand the Biology of Stem Cells

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Colebrook (2002) claims that we are in a post-linguistic era and need to develop theories and approaches that are not language dependent. On the other hand, we have been dedicated firmly to use only language to describe extremely complex and interactive events in biology. If we think that mathematics is the language of nature then we should be able to represent and understand everything around us through numbers. When we turn those numbers of any system to the graphs, patterns emerge. Hence, there are patterns everywhere in nature (Aronofsky 1998). The way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions is called emergence. Therefore, emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems (Corning 2002).

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Yildirim, S. (2012). New Approach to Understand the Biology of Stem Cells. In: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. SpringerBriefs in Stem Cells. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2206-8_7

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