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Interrogating biology with a chemical lexicon

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Understanding the mysteries of life has always been a driving force in scientific research; Barbara Imperiali from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reflects on the infinite opportunities for chemists at the biology interface.

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  1. Barbara Imperiali is in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. imper@mit.edu,

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Imperiali, B. Interrogating biology with a chemical lexicon. Nature Chem 1, 9–10 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.144

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