From Woese to Wired: The unexpected payoffs of basic research

Fundamental observations about nature sometimes take a circuitous and utterly unpredictable course from bright idea to demonstrably practical impact. The tale of how Carl Woese’s basic insights about microbial diversity eventually contributed to the emergence of a new field of science with numerous...

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Autor principal: Reid, Ann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2014
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24572567
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/rna.27701
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spelling pubmed-40085492015-03-01 From Woese to Wired: The unexpected payoffs of basic research Reid, Ann RNA Biol Review Fundamental observations about nature sometimes take a circuitous and utterly unpredictable course from bright idea to demonstrably practical impact. The tale of how Carl Woese’s basic insights about microbial diversity eventually contributed to the emergence of a new field of science with numerous potential applications is just such a story. Landes Bioscience 2014-03-01 2014-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4008549/ /pubmed/24572567 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/rna.27701 Text en Copyright © 2014 Landes Bioscience http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. The article may be redistributed, reproduced, and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided the original source is properly cited.
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