Lost in Translation: Facing Up to Translational Research
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Lost in translation: facing up to translational research.
In the business world (which inches ever closer to the scientific world), terms such as “think out of the box” and “paradigm shift” are so in vogue that they are out of fashion. After all, the only people who actually think in boxes are the dead, and since the word “paradigm” does not mean anything, the term “paradigm shift” is just as meaningful (another corporatism) as “sausage shift.” Curren...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0012-1797,1939-327X
DOI: 10.2337/db07-1371