Brain tumors (photo from Glia, 2002, Ignatova, T. et al, courtesy D.A. Steindler.)
(Originally published at Scientific American, guest blog, June 26)
I had a very strange week. While in Washington, D.C., writing news releases for the Model Organisms to Human Biology: Cancer Genetics meeting sponsored by the Genetics Society of America, I had left, back home in upstate New York, my dear hospice patient. Ruth was nearing the end of her battle with liver cancer. It was jarring to go from holding her hand to listening to litanies of deranged signal transduction pathways and cascades of mutations that cause the damn diseases. (more…)
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