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Life Sciences
Life sciences are the branch of natural sciences concerned with living organisms, and include the subjects of anatomy, biochemistry, biology, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, physiology, zoology, and related subjects.
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Our primary emphasis isn’t on physics and chemistry; it’s on the sciences of life.”
“Is that a matter of principle?”
“Not entirely. It’s also a matter of convenience and economic necessity. We don’t have the money for large-scale research in physics and chemistry, and we don’t really have any practical need for that kind of research—no heavy industries to be made more competitive, no armaments to be made more diabolical, not the faintest desire to land on the backside of the moon. Only the mod
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― Island
― Island
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Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms, by making living matter conform to the shape, time, and technical forms of simpler experimental models.
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― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
― Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies