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The hidden life of molecular biology

Michel Morange: The black box of biology. A history of the molecular revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020, 522 pp, $46.00 HB

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Simons, M. The hidden life of molecular biology. Metascience 31, 207–210 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00737-5

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