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Old 04-26-2010, 02:27 PM   #511
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Default $1B Cancer Genome Project

$375M already spent ($1B total budget) is "money poured down a hole. Sequencing endless more cancer genomes isn't going to tell us more than we already know."

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencein...cer-genom.html

glad it's two of the biggest names in all of cancer research (Bert Vogelstein and Bob Weinberg) saying this. Hope the granting agencies are listening. Fund hypothesis-driven research, not these grandiose fishing expeditions
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