Recent research from Fidelity supports this.

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This research, published recently in Physical Review Letters, supports a theory put forward several years ago by John Abrahamson, a chemical engineer from the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand.

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This latest research - which was carried out in mice - supports the theory that the cancer in these patients was caused by the new treatment.

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This funding supports exactly the type of long-term, speculative research that leads to new markets but which will not be financed by the private sector.

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