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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Sir Marcello Lotti and Pierluigi Nicotera, in their Concepts essay on toxicology (_Nature_ 416, 481; 2002), raise important issues about the
seminal contribution made by the use of toxins as probes to our understanding of fundamental principles and functions of biological systems. But their claim that “basic research has, over
the past two decades, become irrelevant to many toxicologists” is not true. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your
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Seattle, 98105-6099, Washington, USA David L. Eaton * CIIT Centers for Health Research, PO Box 12137, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, USA William F. Greenlee Authors * David
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