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Published online 4 May 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070430-12
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Six degrees of pharmacology
Game ranks researchers by proximity to field's founder.
"What's your Abel number?" was the big question being asked by pharmacologists this week at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington, DC.
Members of the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) were swept up in a game, akin to playing six degrees of separation, in which researchers compete to be the most closely related to the man regarded as the field's founder: John J.
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