Abstract:
:The majority of biomedical and biological research relies on a few molecular biology techniques. Here we show that eight key molecular biology techniques would not exist without basic biological research. We also find that the scientific reward system does not sufficiently value basic biological research into molecular mechanisms.
journal_name
Trends Mol Medjournal_title
Trends in molecular medicineauthors
Ronai I,Griffiths PEdoi
10.1016/j.molmed.2018.12.003subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-02-01 00:00:00pages
65-69issue
2eissn
1471-4914issn
1471-499Xpii
S1471-4914(18)30227-2journal_volume
25pub_type
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