There are no quick fixes, no magic bullets and certainly copious amounts of facile punditry that will talk you into solution.

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She said using antibodies as 'magic bullets' had been clinically difficult, and the mTCRs were difficult to make and had all the same problems as monoclonal antibodies.

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Ernst Schaefer, a nutrition researcher at Tufts University who is involved in Accomplia studies, said none of these obesity drugs are going to be magic bullets.

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Yet the ECB's own guns haven't been firing magic bullets.

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In 1990, he wrote the music and lyrics for "The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, " a theatrical collaboration with the American writer William Burroughs based on a German folktale.

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Magic bullets for understanding metastasis "have been proposed again and again, and nothing has ever held up, " says Richard Klausner, former head of the National Cancer Institute and now a principal at the Column Group, a venture capital firm.

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But CCTs are not magic bullets.

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They are not magic bullets.

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