Signal transduction: evolution of an idea.

@article{Rodbell1995SignalTE,
  title={Signal transduction: evolution of an idea.},
  author={Martin Rodbell},
  journal={Environmental Health Perspectives},
  year={1995},
  volume={103},
  pages={338 - 345}
}
  • M. Rodbell
  • Published 1 April 1995
  • Biology, Medicine
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
Abstract“In general there is no set of observations conceivable which can give enough information about the past of a system to give complete information as to its future”: Norbert Wiener. “Think simplicity; then discard it”: Alfred North Whitehead 
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