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Pushing the frontiers of interdisciplinary research: an idea whose time has come

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Opportunities for research at the interface between biology and the more quantitative sciences are growing fast. Diane Gershon assesses the field.

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Gershon, D. Pushing the frontiers of interdisciplinary research: an idea whose time has come. Nature 404, 313–315 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35005213

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