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Alex Toker

Comments by Henryk Dudek, senior scientist, neurosciences group, Ontogeny Inc., Cambridge, Mass., and Michael E. Greenberg, professor of neurology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Comments by Thomas F. Franke, assistant professor of pharmacology, Columbia University, and Alex Toker, staff scientist, signal transduction group, Boston Biomedical Research Institute

Among the most important realizations emerging from signal transduction research this decade has been the key role in...

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