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The future of biomedicine depends on the strength of its underpinning sciences, including chemistry, physics and mathematics. Therein lie some of biomedicine's most challenging and costly problems, and greatest opportunities.
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This text is modified from a document written on behalf of the US Biophysical Society when the author was president, 1998-99. Thanks to Sarina Bromberg, Jim Cassatt, Ro Kampman, Peter Kollman, I. D. Kuntz, Alex McPherson, Tom Poulos, Jolanda Schreurs, Madeline Shea, Pete von Hippel, Keith Yamamoto and members of the society's council for comments.
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Dill, K. Strengthening biomedicine's roots. Nature 400, 309–310 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/22415
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