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Drug resistance is one of the greatest obstacles to effective cancer therapy. Research has shown that cancer cells can use any number of genes and strategies to achieve or acquire resistance to particular therapies. Until recently, scientists have taken a piecemeal approach to understanding the problem of resistance—unraveling individual mechanisms without reaching any kind of overarching theme.

In 1610, Galileo Galilei set a scientific precedent for the next half millennium: he published his notebooks. , as the publication was officially dubbed, documented Galilei’s observation of several astronomical features, including the orbit of Jupiter’s moons around the planet and the play of light and shadow on the earth’s moon.