Coming Full Circle—From Endless Complexity to Simplicity and Back Again

Cell has celebrated the powers of reductionist molecular biology and its major successes for four decades. Those who have participated in cancer research during this period have witnessed wild fluctuations from times where endless inexplicable phenomenology reigned supreme to periods of reductionist...

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Published inCell Vol. 157; no. 1; pp. 267 - 271
Main Author Weinberg, Robert A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 27.03.2014
Subjects
Animals
Genomics
Humans
Molecular Biology
Neoplasms - genetics
Neoplasms - metabolism
Neoplasms - pathology
Neoplasms - virology
Oncogenes
Retroviridae - physiology
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Summary:Cell has celebrated the powers of reductionist molecular biology and its major successes for four decades. Those who have participated in cancer research during this period have witnessed wild fluctuations from times where endless inexplicable phenomenology reigned supreme to periods of reductionist triumphalism and, in recent years, to a move back to confronting the endless complexity of this disease.
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ISSN:0092-8674
1097-4172
DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2014.03.004