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Michael Lynch argues that introns originated with the advent of multicellularity, as a pathological response to small population size...[more]

Richard Strohman argues that understanding the genotype-phenotype relationship and causes of disease requires detailed knowledge of self-organizing networks that display system-wide dynamics...[more]

George Whitesides and Bartosz Grzybowski provide a look at self-assembly in a range of applications, from technology to biology...[more]

Researchers utilize self-organizational principles to produce materials that are responsive to external conditions...[more]

A new movie detailing the assembly of the bacteria flagella is available for viewing online...[more]

The latest issue of Science (3-29-02) emphasizes "Supramolecular Chemistry and Self-Assembly." ISCID will bring you the abstracts of these complex-systems-relevant papers over the next few days. The first of these is titled "Toward Self-Organization and Complex Matter"...[more]

Recent studies lead to the view that, in contrast to a simple linear assembly line, a complex and extensively coupled network has evolved to coordinate the activities of the gene expression machines in eukaryotes...[more]

ISCID announces Brainstorms: An open forum for discussing novel intuitions, speculations, hypotheses, conjectures, arguments, and data related to complex systems that have yet to be developed into full-fledged research projects...[more]