Genetics' 'Tremendous Implications'

Jul 19, 2012

In a lecture at the Royal Institution in London, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Sir Paul Nurse said that, on the whole, biologists tend to leave grand ideas and theories to physicists and concentrate more on details.

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