Modern biomedical research: An internally self-consistent universe with little contact with medical reality?

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-154

  Horrobin, David F ^a  

^a Laxdale Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DNA MODIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; PHILOSOPHY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 0037313517     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd1012     Document Type: Article

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