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Cancer and Obesity
Disclaimer: I support the body positive community, as in I donโt think people should be made to feel bad about how they look or be treated poorly based on their size or appearance (why canโt we all be nice to…
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Naked Mole Rats: Models for Cancer and Aging
Do naked mole rats hold the answers to cancer prevention and aging? Their genes don’t create faulty cells the way ours do. Originally published on massivesci.com Naked mole rats are not winning an animal beauty contest any time soon. Eduard…
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Is Cancer Prevention a Futile Pursuit?
We can detect and treat it better than ever, but preventing cancer is still far out of reach. The search for clues has led researchers to study animals who don’t develop cancer at all. Originally published on massivesci.com Doctors and…
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Cancer: Peto’s Paradox
Iโm going to create a new series all about what Iโm studying: cancer. I wrote an introductory post about cancer awhile back (I think it may have been my very first post) that was a broad explanation about cancer. With…
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Cancer
Letโs start this blog by talking about a complex topic: cancer. Iโve been studying cancer for a couple of years now (I have a degree in cancer biology, that makes me an expert, right?), so I know quite a bit…