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Nature 439, 779-780 (16 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439779a; Published online 15 February 2006

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Medical research: Them and us no longer

Meredith Wadman1

  1. Meredith Wadman is a freelance writer based in Washington DC.

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Scientists and medical doctors view research through different lenses — but the gulf in outlook between the two tribes isn't what it used to be. Meredith Wadman reports.

Genetics graduate student Rima Adler reached the limits of her collegiality one evening last May, when she needlessly missed a concert by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.Late that afternoon, she had stayed in the lab to help a physician colleague, and ended up spending three hours explaining the basics of the polymerase chain reaction and how it could help the young physician's analysis of their results.

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