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Cancer Research: Full Circle–From Endless Complexity to Simplicity and Back
- ctoth 5y agoI really liked the description of this particular feeling, coupled with it inevitably being profoundly wrong. > Despite the low opinion some had of cancer research, we molecular biologists imagined that somehow we would ride in—knights on white horses—and save the day. We were, after all, reductionists, who would parse cancer cells down to their smallest molecular details and develop useful, universally applicable lessons about the mechanisms of cancer development. We would somehow develop logical order out of the phenomenological chaos that the traditional cancer researchers had been accumulating for more than half a century.