Cancer research is hard. Too many cooks in the kitchen, if you ask me. Everyone wants to be the one who "cures cancer", so everybody goes into cancer. Hence, NCI has one of the worst funding rates of any institute. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Aye, though this would be from the point of view of "we have this awesome method we can apply to anything, let's try this understudied disease that people haven't made much headway on". Personally I'm interested in the general principles of cellular systems. Having some disease on the end of that is a nice way to give a project tangible benchmarks though.

As for the review, it won't be your last bad review. We try to make everyone else feel stupid, because it gives us catharsis for all the times other people have made us feel two feet tall. The trick is to not take it personal, even if you feel like it is.

Had a minor bout of "that's unfair, those other guys didn't have to do all that", but it subsided... Oh and thundara you need to stop writing such long sentences no one can understand you seriously stop this is going on for way too long you need to understand punctuation should be used to punctuate things...

Meh