There is another whole family of approaches to studying very small objects: rather than attempting to study molecular-level processes with the (comparatively) huge and clumsy machinery that we humans can design, let us look for useful molecular-level tools we can find in nature. In particular, living cells are full of useful molecular-level machinery— what can we, as biologists, do with this existing machinery?
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(2007). Reprogramming Cells. In: A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48278-1_5
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