14.5 – Medicine and Mad Scientists

Base Pairs by Base Pairs – a Cold Spring Harbor Lab podcast

Apr 13, 201800:15:17Science & Medicine

It’s important to know that a drug works, but knowing how it works can be just as crucial. CSHL Fellow Jason Sheltzer discovered that the hypothesis explaining the action of a new cancer drug was incorrect, indicating th...

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