Even during lunch hour, they discuss the morning's surgery or the probable significance of the laboratory findings for the baffling medical problem on their floor.

The laboratory findings have been supported by research into humans, focusing on families whose members are longlived.

But one by one, each claim was disproved when independent researchers were unable to replicate earlier laboratory findings.

Someone needs to be able to take laboratory findings and apply them to people, and someone needs to take the clinical experiences of patients back to the lab.

Finally, projects at the field level will focus on implementing laboratory findings in real world systems.