San Francisco biotech company FibroGen guts staff after failed cancer trials

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1. The problem with small biotech startups.

That rely on a single new test or drug of some promising lab study, but which doesn't work out.

They aren't allowed to be wrong.

I was lucky to work for NASA and allowed to do actual research. I was told at the beginning that "we sometimes have 2 or 3 different project working to some the same problem, you are allowed to fail but be sure to write a paper about your approach and the failure and please try to describe WHY it failed.

"Failure is not an option" was only true for the actual put into practice solutions where human space flight was involved.