Open AccessShifting paradigms: the seeds of oncogene addiction
Author(s) -
Charles L. Sawyers
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nature medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.536
H-Index - 547
eISSN - 1546-170X
pISSN - 1078-8956
DOI - 10.1038/nm1009-1158
Subject(s) - addiction , biology , medicine , computational biology , cancer research , neuroscience
Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argues that new insights often come from scientific renegades who champion new paradigms to account for observations that cannot be adequately explained by existing theory1. His views intrigued me while I was a Princeton undergraduate interested in the history of science.
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