December 15, 2012

Experiment with your vegetables

The Herald has a story on anticancer compounds in broccoli that is actually pretty good. Even the headline only says “Broccoli compound can kill cancer”.

Like all early-stage lab research, the findings will almost certainly not lead to improved treatments, and they don’t provide an additional reason to eat broccoli, but the story does describe what the research found.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »