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Assigning proper credit

Nature Medicine volume 19, page 16 (2013)Cite this article

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Who gets the credit when there is a groundbreaking discovery in a laboratory? The advisor or the student who did the research? How often is the assignment of credit just? Since history rewards the victors, can we ever discover the real truth? And, as in the film Rashomon, is the truth distorted by each protagonist's point of view?

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  1. Martin J. Blaser is in the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.,

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