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Molecular biology has given us new insights into many phenomena of clinical importance; it has suggested new therapeutic approaches to several diseases and has provided sensitive new methods for detecting chemical carcinogens. None of these applications had been foreseen.
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Perutz, M. Fundamental research in molecular biology: relevance to medicine*. Nature 262, 449–453 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262449a0
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