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Organizing Brain Science on an International Scale
Examples from the last decade of neuroscience research point to an increase in international collaborations, big consortia, global data gathering, and the development of atlases and databases. How might global initiatives coordinate conceptual breakthroughs and promote discoveries without taking away from the freedom of individual labs? Scientists from around the world lent their voices to the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.10.014