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Gregory Petsko om den kommende neurologiske epidemi

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Biokemiker Gregory Petsko fremfører et overbevisende argument at, i løbet af de næste 50 år, vil vi se en epidemi af neurologiske lidelser, som Alzheimers, i takt med at verden bliver ældre. Hans løsning: mere forskning i hjernen og dens funktioner.

Gregory Petsko is a biochemist who studies the proteins of the body and their biochemical function. Working with Dagmar Ringe, he's doing pioneering work in the way we look at proteins and what they do. Full bio »

Translated into Danish by David J. Kreps Finnemann
Reviewed by Anders Finn Jørgensen
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