The origin story of rapamycin: systemic bias in biomedical research and cold war politics
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DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e22-08-0377
Abstract: METEI (Medical Expedition to Easter Island) was a Canadian-led expedition to Easter Island in 1964 that led to the discovery of rapamycin, launching a billion-dollar drug industry and major field of biomedical research. Stanley’s Dream,… read more here.
Keywords: systemic bias; bias biomedical; rapamycin; origin story ... See more keywords