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Of Some Paradoxes in the Historiography of Molecular Biology
1UCLA Department of History and Institute for Society and Genetics.
Abstract:
Just when molecular biology is arguably delivering on some of its long-promised medical applications-think mRNA vaccines, monoclonal antibody drugs, PCR testing, and gene therapies-the history of molecular biology has lost much of its shine. What not too long ago seemed like a burgeoning field of research with endless possibilities, is now often reduced to the "central dogma" that saw its apotheosis in the effort to sequence the human genome but has since unraveled. The essay will discuss several possible answers to this apparent paradox.
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