This second tumor shrinkage finding could be important for the minority of patients whose metastases are only slightly too big to attempt a curative surgery.
It seemed from this that the shrinkage of the American defence industry down from 15 companies to four big ones since 1992 has probably gone as far as it is going to.
But this approach also forces the consortium to tackle the second problem raised by the continual shrinkage of transistors: too many or too few atoms in the wrong places.