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From Galen to Golgi: birth of the life sciences in Italy

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Between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, the study of biology was intimately intertwined with progress in medicine. So how, when and where did research into the life sciences begin?

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Figure 1: Camillo Golgi (1843–1926).

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