William Heberden and reverse translation

Elazer R Edelman; Kelly LaMarco

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2250

William Heberden and reverse translation

Sci Transl Med. 2015 May 13;7(287):287fs20. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2250.

Authors

Elazer R Edelman¹, Kelly LaMarco²

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. ere@mit.edu.
² Science Translational Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC 20005, USA.

PMID: 25972000
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2250

Abstract

Beginning with the 18th-century physician-scientist William Heberden, the elder, Science Translational Medicine introduces a new article series about historical figures whose transformational contributions to science, medicine, and society remain relevant today.

Publication types

Historical Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

History, 18th Century
Humans
Protein Biosynthesis*
Translational Research, Biomedical
United States

Personal name as subject

William Heberden

Grants and funding

R01 GM 49039/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States