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China’s biotech hubs also have a dense network of specialized contract research organizations, or CROs—which are critical for running clinical tests—allowing researchers to quickly transform scientific hypotheses into results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The 15 partnerships with global firms it has disclosed have an aggregate headline contract value exceeding $11 billion and suggest it can convert hypotheses into development assets and commercial transactions at scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
These ideas remain hypotheses and have not been proven.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The continuing delay, he argues, points to competing hypotheses, unresolved leads and possible mechanical issues that have yet to be fully explained.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Mendel’s gift was experimentation—the manipulation of organisms, cross-fertilization of carefully selected sub-breeds, the testing of hypotheses.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
