oversimplicity
nounEtymology From over- + simplicity.
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Excessive simplicity.
- By introducing the element of phenotype of primary cancer cells at earlier in vitro stages of drug development, PDX cell-screening allows us to find drugs that are active against real cancers in vivo and bridges the gap between the oversimplicity of conventional cell line-based screening and the intractable complexity of clinical studies.2015 August 17, Keiki Sugimoto et al., “Discovery of a drug targeting microenvironmental support for lymphoma cells by screening using patient-derived xenograft cells”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI: