title: Healing by numbers: mathematics meets medicine.
abstract: The molecular biology revolution is providing vast quantities of information about the cell biology and biochemistry underlying clinical medicine. How can the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle be put together? This is currently a major biological challenge, and help is at hand from an unlikely source - mathematics.
authors.affiliation: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sherratt
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008511:Medicine; D008962:Models, Theoretical