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[CogDiss 1188X]

Another example of scientific understatement, found to jog my memory but since I found it, might as well pass it on since it’s kind of entertaining if one is skewed in a certain way.

When Drucker announced the first experimental results of imatinib on CML, kicking off the era of targeted therapies, published in the journal Nature Medicine, he concluded: “This compound may be useful in the treatment of Bcr-abl positive leukemias.”

From “The Emperor of All Maladies,” p. 435

[biosectinvestor]

Great!!

[sentiment_stocks]

Ah but let us not forget the woman Rosalind Franklin's VERY critical role in this story.

At Kings College, Rosalind Franklin had just recently "succeeded in taking an X-ray diffraction pattern from a sample of DNA that showed a clearly recognizable cross or helical shape", and a few days prior to Feb 28, 1953, AND unbeknownst to Ms. Franklin, her colleague Maurice Wilkens had let James Watson see that image, confirming what Watson and Crick thought, but had not yet proven.

When the Nobel Prize was awarded to the three men in 1962, Rosalind had died of ovarian cancer, and so did not receive the Nobel Prize as the rules prohibit awarding it posthumously.