RAPT signs on with struggling Hanmi for Asian entrance of cancer therapy aimed at 'charged tumors'
In the early 60s, two British virologists analyzing tumor cells from Uganda made a landmark scientific discovery that would lead to a landmark scientific error.
They discovered the first cancer-causing virus, later eponymously named Epstein-Barr, and America — fresh off the polio vaccine’s unprecedented success — was ready to believe that most cancers were caused by viruses and thus could be cured by vaccines. The problem was simple: Most cancers weren’t, and the ones caused by Epstein-Barr mostly afflicted people oceans away from Washington DC, where the National Cancer Institute began spending millions on the subfield.
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