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Can finance cure cancer?

How do you drive investors to spend money on cutting-edge cancer treatments? One idea, according to economist Andrew Lo, is to sell securities in a megafund of research projects. Economist correspondent Paul Solman explores how financial engineering could be the starting point for curing cancer.
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