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I want to print personalised cancer drugs in a day

By Catherine de Lange

10 December 2014

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More than a decade ago, I was with a large biopharma company where I learned first-hand that drug development wasn’t really working. Putting tremendous resources into R&D didn’t necessarily produce a lot of results, even though we used the most advanced genetic technologies and the best people. I decided…

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