RESISTANCE TO CHANGE. “The paramount dogma in cell biology was that the failure of cells to proliferate indefinitely in vitro must be attributable to errors in the “art” required to keep cells dividing forever. That dogma was so well entrenched that our original manuscript was rejected in 1960 by The Journal of Experimental Medicine.” Science hates change.
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