Covid-19 and the need for more history and philosophy of RNA

RNA is central to the COVID-19 pandemic—it shapes how the SARS Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) behaves, and how researchers investigate and fight it. However, RNA has received relatively little attention in the history and philosophy of the life sciences. By analysing RNA biology in more detail, philosop...

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Autor principal: Guttinger, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7986637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33759005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00391-w
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Sumario:RNA is central to the COVID-19 pandemic—it shapes how the SARS Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) behaves, and how researchers investigate and fight it. However, RNA has received relatively little attention in the history and philosophy of the life sciences. By analysing RNA biology in more detail, philosophers and historians of science could gain new and powerful tools to assess the current pandemic, and the biological sciences more generally.

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