Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The constraints imposed by available experimental data, and the need for precision, typically limits the eloquence of researchers. Scientists, however, indulge in their literary and poetic selves in the names that they bestow on genes and proteins, on organisms and diseases. We briefly review some familiar names in the Inside Passage, and explore their historical antecedents.
Source: Gut Microbes
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.20454
Authors: Gayatri Vedantam, V.K. Viswanathan
Institution: University of Arizona
Language: English
Subfield: Anatomy
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2080999469