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Nature 424, 718-720 (14 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/424718a
Lab architecture: Do you want to work here?
Laura Bonetta1
- Laura Bonetta is a freelance writer based in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Abstract
The architects behind a new generation of laboratories believe their designs can stimulate good science. Laura Bonetta finds out how, and looks at research that may one day help to test their claims.
In 1992, the late virologist Jonas Salk was asked to accept an award from the American Institute of Architects for the institute he founded in La Jolla, California. In his speech, Salk told how he had visited an abbey in Assisi, Italy, while working on a polio vaccine early in his career.
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