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links 10/28/2024:
https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/10-28-2024
Vincent deVita, chemotherapy pioneer, reflecting on how cancer research has changed (and become more bureaucratic) since the 1960s:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrclinonc.2009.51
https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/68/21/8643/541799/A-History-of-Cancer-Chemotherapy
https://cancerhistoryproject.com/article/vince-devita-on-the-history-of-chemotherapy/
https://www.yalemedicine.org/podcasts/cancer-answers-the-history-of-chemotherapy-july-6-2008
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/where-we-are-in-the-war-on-cancer/
https://vincenttdevitajrmdoncancer.blogspot.com/
Michael Levin has his own team (of ~20) at Tufts working on morphogenetics:
https://allencenter.tufts.edu/
with a $10M founding grant from the Allen Foundation, which I expect will not be enough to complete this research program.
https://alleninstitute.org/news/the-paul-g-allen-frontiers-group-announces-allen-discovery-center-at-tufts-university/
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