Anticancer 'co-clinical' trials, in which mice carrying known mutations are treated in parallel with patients enrolled in a simultaneous clinical study, could help to improve therapeutic outcome. See Letter p.613
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Johnson, L. Clinical trials unite mice and humans. Nature 483, 547–548 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/483546a
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