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The budget deals generously with basic science; the snags are that the election will tempt Congress to deny the President what he wants and that the strategy of budget deficits may blow up in his face.
The startling similarity of part of epidermal growth factor and the product of a viral oncogene is another leap forward in understanding the basis of cancer. A definite link to human cancer remains elusive.
