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1. When I assumed directorship of the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1970 I was anxious to establish my firm belief that all physicians engaged in practice and administration should conduct research relatedjo their clinical responsibilities. The Employee Health Department of the whole NIH was under my jurisdiction, and the appearance of the late Linus Pauling's bo...

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Invited commentary on David Fedson’s article

The recent H5N1 and H1N1 scares demonstrate that political, bureaucratic, and to a large extent scientific, thinking about how to ward off potentially large fatalities is currently restricted to stockpiling antivirals and generating new vaccines. Nevertheless, as David Fedson pointed out with undeniable logic in last month’s issue of this journal (3: 129–142), an influenza research community th...

Commentary on Gáspár Jékely's article in EMBO reports, July 2002.

In his article, Gáspár Jékely praises the role that chemistry played in elucidating the structure of DNA. Rightly so, I must say, being educated as a chemist myself. However, I believe that some modesty is quite appropriate in this case and I would like to explain briefly why chemistry initially failed to grasp the real nature of DNA. While reflecting on the sequencing of the human genome, Jéke...

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