Coming Full Circle-from Endless Complexity to Simplicity and Back Again

Overview

Journal Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2014 Apr 1

PMID 24679541

Citations 110

Authors

Robert A Weinberg

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Abstract

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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