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		pasttense01 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune syste... If you ask: out of all the studies which have done well in mice what percent lead to successful drugs for humans: the answer is a very small percent.

asdff 4 months ago [–]

This is the nature of research pipelines. If you ask: out of all the clinical trials that have shown promise in early human trials, what percent lead to successful drugs for humans: the answer is a very small percent.

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