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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sutton ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Personalized cancer therapy
Date: 09/11/26 3:34 PM
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A really excellent, layman's level discussion of the development of cancer vaccines: where they started, obstacles overcome, where we are now.

theseedsofscience.pub - How to build a cancer vaccine and

A little dense in places, but it's just not possible to discuss the immune system without getting at least a little in the weeds. (Maybe best read in chunks?)

It will also give you the chance to insert the word "agretopicity" into your next elevator conversation.

My only complaint is that the author describes the 1980s and 90s in the same tone generally used to discuss the Victorian era. The whippersnapper.

--sutton
whose wet lab experience was primarily the fifteen or so years starting in 1979. We had electricity and everything. Even a programmable calculator for standardization curves.
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