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A Fight Over Factor Investing Tests a Pillar of Modern Finance

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A Fight Over Factor Investing Tests a Pillar of Modern Finance

In November a curious paper dropped on SSRN, an online hub widely used by economists to circulate their work. The paper’s authors are two of the most important figures in academic finance: Kenneth French, of Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, and Eugene Fama, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the University of Chicago. The article … Read more

Scientists Developing Implant To Slash Cancer Death Rates By 50%

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Scientists Developing Implant To Slash Cancer Death Rates By 50%

The initial clinical trial will concentrate on refractory recurrent ovarian cancer. A team of scientists at Rice University in the United States has received $45 million in funding to develop sense-and-respond implant technology that could reduce cancer deaths by over 50 percent. The grant, given to a group of scientists led by Rice University and … Read more