Moonshot Science—Risks and Benefits

ABSTRACT Ever since the successful Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, a “moonshot” has come to signify a bold effort to achieve a seemingly impossible task. The Obama administration recently called for a moonshot to cure cancer, an initiative that has elicited mixed responses from researchers who welco...

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Main Authors: Arturo Casadevall, Ferric C. Fang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-09-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01381-16