Medical Futurist January 5, 2019
The OMICS acronym crawled into the hive mind of the life science community as the Marvel universe onto the movie screens: slowly but successfully. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, methylomics or surfaceomics occupy a growing field of research in systems biology lately. It will be an even more significant strand in the future with practical ramifications, such as transcriptomic tests for disease risks. Thus, it is recommended to get familiar with the OMICS universe. Here’s a glimpse of it.
Systems biology and the messenger game
When I was in fourth grade, a fun game sometimes referred to as the ‘broken telephone game’ lighted up my school trips. We usually made long hiking trips in nature, which for me, an impersonator of...