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Love those news. Sadly there never really seems to come anything of it.

Yes, in many cases the results at the laboratory level are not scalable to clinical applications, however these tests in mammals are very important.

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Thank you. I am not very educated on the topic and don't want to get my hopes up too much. But fingers crossed that we can eliminate a few cancers soon.

You're welcome!

That's what killed my grandmother. Never smoked a cigarette in her life and died of lung cancer.

I'm sorry for your loss

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Scientific Reports is one if the lowest tiers of journals. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t good work that comes out in it, but on average the work is not highly impactful.

This illustrates the disconnect between science and mainstream: the articles that are exciting to researchers rarely make it to the mainstream, whereas less interesting work to researchers often make it to the press based on an exciting title.

What do you mean? Scientific Reports is one of the most important multidisciplinary journals in the world. https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?area=1000

There are entire institutions that don’t count Scientific Reports papers in considerations for promotion/graduation. It’s widely seen in my field as a dumping ground for papers that can’t get accepted anywhere else.

That’s not to say that there’s no great papers in there. There are. Just on average not.