Anarchy in the Organism

The research and development website of my Wellcome Trust funded Artist Residency at the UCLH Cancer Centre, London
March 2011 to March 2012

Simeon Nelson
s.d.lockhart-nelson@herts.ac.uk

Literature Review

Literature Review

the links below to abstracts, websites and full articles are a tiny
fraction of what is out there. My review needs also to encompass the application of complex systems to other biological, cultural and social phenomena that may be analogically linked to cancer..

 

-Nature to Numbers: Complex Systems Modelling of Cancer

Manish Patel and Sylvia Nagl

http://www.springerlink.com/content/0802q50221g32166/

 

-Cancer systems Biology, Complex Systems Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu

Fabra, Barcelona

http://complex.upf.es/~ricard/CANCER_NIH_SITE

http://complex.upf.es/~ricard/METAPOPCANCERPNAS.pdf

 

-Fractals and cancer in the era of systems biology

www.math.tau.ac.il/~mmsb/page11/files/Grizzi.pdf

 

-Self-similarity of complex networks

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v433/n7024/abs/nature03248.html

 

-Fractal Geometry in Medical Science: Beginning of a New Era?

www.fractal.org/Life…/Fractal-Geometry-in-Medical-Science.pdf

 

-A systems biology approach to cancer: fractals, attractors, and

nonlinear dynamics.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21319994

 

-Cancer control through principles of systems science, complexity, and

chaos theory: A model http://www.medsci.org/v04p0164.htm

 

-A Systems Biology Approach to Cancer: Fractals, Attractors, and

Nonlinear Dynamics

OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/omi.2010.0091

 

-Cancer: A Mistep into Chaos Quicksand?

http://omnomescience.blogspot.com/2007/07/cancer-mistep-into-chaos-quick

sand.html

 

-Cancer Advances - Something old and Something New

http://www.medicinethink.com/cancer-advances-something-old-and-something

-new/

 

The Conflict Between Complex Systems and Reductionism

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/300/13/1580.short