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The impact of physics on biology and medicine
Sep 3, 1999
There is a long tradition of physicists and physics-based techniques making important contributions to biology and medicine. Here the director of the National Institutes of Health, one of the world's foremost biomedical research centres, argues that this tradition must go on.
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