Toward Treating Disease the Way Artificial Limbs Replace the Function of Lost Arms and Legs

Monday, September 9, 2013 - 15:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The vision for a new branch of medicine, inspired by the ancient field that began with peg legs and hand hooks, commanded the spotlight in a major address by its pioneer here today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. He focused on the field he has named "molecular prosthetics."

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