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Crucial questions in cell biology and in neurobiology
1Unity Laboratory of Applied Neurobiology, Guildford, Surrey, UK. hillmanh@breathemail.com
Medical Hypotheses
|July 31, 2003
Abstract:
Forty-two proper questions about the research methods, the structure, physiology, biochemistry, pathology and theory of cell biology and 27 more about neurobiology are listed. These have not hitherto been addressed in the literature, other than in my previous publications. The answers to some of them show anomalies in current views, or draw attention to control experiments, which have never been done. Progress will be limited until these important questions are addressed.
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