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The model student: what chemical model systems can teach us about biology

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Model systems have evolved with the times, making use of modern biological methods and incorporating biological complexity. This evolution has increased the relevance of models as tools for studying biology.

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Acknowledgements

E.T.K. acknowledges US National Institutes of Health grants GM072705 and GM63587, and M.L.W. acknowledges a US National Science Foundation Career Award (CHE-0094068) and NIH grant GM071589 for support of work with model systems.

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  1. Eric T. Kool is in the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. kool@stanford.edu

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  2. Marcey L. Waters is in the Department of Chemistry, CB 3290, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA. mlwaters@email.unc.edu

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