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April 2013's selection of notable quotes


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TUMOR TALK: Breast cancer cells aggregate on microcarrier beads.DR. JEANNE BECKER, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

—Stanford University School of Medicine’s Atul Butte explaining why cancer patients should share their data, in a video on Cancer Commons (February 18)

—University of California, San Diego, systems biologist Trey Ideker, whose research involves creating software that can analyze omics data to search for patterns that human data curators might miss (Nature, February 27)

— President Barack Obama in the first State of the Union address of his second term (February 13)

John Krueger, Health Scientist Administrator at the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Research Integrity, in the agency’s December 2012 newsletter

—John Schwarz, Caltech physicist, decrying governmental obstacles to medical marijuana research in his keynote address at the National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference in Washington, D.C., at the end ...

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