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SC BlogGalapagos NV: drug discovery innovator Not long ago, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) made headlines with its “Massive Cancer Information Giveaway“: a gift of over 300 cell lines derived from a wide variety of tumors, including breast, prostate, lung and ovarian cancers. The cell lines were made freely available to cancer researchers via the National Cancer Institute’s caBIG, with the goal of “crowdsourcing” [...] |
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