In cancer science, many "discoveries" don't hold up
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former researcher at Amgen Inc has found that many basic studies on cancer -- a high proportion of them from university labs -- are unreliable, with grim consequences for producing new medicines in the future.
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