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Why haven't biologists cured cancer?
It's not because they're not good enough at math
To mark the importance of the moment, President Bill Clinton held a ceremony at the White House to announce the achievement, in front of a gathering of ambassadors, scientists, company executives, disease advocates and journalists. Even before the publication of the human genome, when experimental methods became advanced enough to generate the necessary data, mathematically trained bioinformaticians like Richard Durbinwere designing computational tools to move beyond classical genetics and study genes in a more systematic/computational fashion. The culprits are so numerous and so scattered across the medical world, that it’s hard to nominate just one: everything from HIPPA rules to Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) contribute to making the clinical trial machine a long and arduous slog.
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