The biologists strike back

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传统中医中所采用的系统性的疾病诊疗方法面对系统生物学这一严格 的科学领域肯定是很不自在的。然而尽管传统中医中很多内容都被广 泛斥为伪科学，但来自世界上一些大学和制药公司的几个小组，却在 寻求用系统生物学方法来检测中医中流传下来的一些诊疗方法中的活 性成分或几种活性成分组合。这些方法之所以能流传下来，是因为 它们的确有效。%Time machines, spaceships, atomic blasters — the icons of science fiction tend to come from the physical sciences. But science fiction has a biological side too, finding drama and pathos in everything from alien evolution to the paradoxes of consciousness. Nature brought together four science-fiction writers with a background in the biological sciences to talk about life-science fiction.