Whenever I think of ‘salad days’ – a Shakespearean expression referring to a youthful time, a period of carefree innocence and idealism – the idyllic Indian summer of 1976 comes to mind when the summer actually meant more than merely a few hours of sunshine for a couple of days in England, rather than days of rain and inclement weather cancelling much anticipated leisure events.

Of course, with warm lazy days one also remembers the opportunity for voracious reading, thinking, staring up watching the clouds while letting thoughts and ideas coalesce in the background.

Science is a bit like this too, coupled with great ideas coming out of asking pertinent big picture or provocative why and how questions.

There has been a crop of excellent research published this year including a nice batch of studies on a diverse range of cancer related topics, which may have important considerations for future pipeline development or novel combination studies.

Obviously one can’t write about them all, so we picked half a dozen to pique our readers interest…

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