Happy Accidents
Morton A. Meyers · 2000
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A work of fiction by Morton A. Meyers, published in 2000. Happy Accidents has become a lasting reference in its field — valued for its insight, clarity, and enduring relevance.
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“Morton Meyers, a practicing doctor and researcher, writes in his wonderful Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs: “Over a twenty-year period of screening more than 144,000 plant extracts, representing about 15,000 species, not a single plant-based anticancer drug reached approved status. This failure stands in stark contrast to the discovery in the late 1950s of a major group of plant-derived cancer drugs, the Vinca Alcaloids—a discovery that came about by chance, not through directed research.”