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Translational research: Talking up translation

Alan Ashworth took a cancer drug from Petri dish to patients in near record speed. Daniel Cressey meets a biologist who is evangelical about translational research.

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Cressey, D. Translational research: Talking up translation. Nature 463, 422–423 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463422a

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