title: The Institute for the Study of Non-Model Organisms and other fantasies.
abstract: In his classic novel Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino describes a series of fantastic imagined cities that fulfill core human needs that remain unmet in ordinary cities. In light of the recent founding of a number of high-profile biomedical institutes, Calvino's descriptions encourage us to consider the unmet needs of the biomedical community and imagine unorthodox institutes designed to fulfill these needs.
authors: Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 sullivan@biology.ucsc.edu.
authors: William
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authors: Sullivan
mesh_terms: D005201:Fantasy; D008091:Literature; D012586:Science
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