A CHEMISTS TOOLBOX

Basic biomedical scientists—chemists, biologists, biochemists, and many others—study health-related problems that may not, at the outset, have a clear connection to a specific disease. Drafting hypotheses and testing them, over and over again, is a lot of hard work. Many experiments fail in the sense that the scientist s hunch turns out to be wrong. 

But every failure is in itself a success a key tidbit of information pointing the scientist s trained eye 

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