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One in three Americans are diagnosed in their lifetime with cancer, a derangement of normal cell growth in which cells grow in antisocial ways, crossing natural tissue boundaries.
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Big Think's panel discussion highlighting cutting-edge cancer research.
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The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]
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Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?
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The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.
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There are some dramatic cases in which cancers have regressed or gone away on their own, which raises the bigger question of why some early cancers progress and others don’t.
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Dr. Harold Varmus: Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?
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One in three Americans are diagnosed in their lifetime with cancer, a derangement of normal cell growth in which cells grow in antisocial ways, crossing natural tissue boundaries.
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One in three Americans are diagnosed in their lifetime with cancer, a derangement of normal cell growth in which cells grow in antisocial ways, crossing natural tissue boundaries.
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Welcome to Breakthroughs: Cancer, the third in a three-part Big Think series on the major diseases of our time.
Everyone knows someone that has been touched by cancer. Over one and a half million Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in 2011, and more than 560,000 […]
By studying our nearest galactic neighbor Andromeda, astrophysicists can better understand how our own Milky Way galaxy formed 10 billion years ago.
THIS week a powerful section of Britain’s political class demonstrated beyond any remaining doubt that they now inhabit a parallel universe to the rest of us. For most people out […]
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The discourse of homosexuality as it becomes more popular makes it more possible for people to become gay or lesbian—but it doesn't produce homosexuals, says Butler.
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Nobody is born one gender or the other, says the philosopher. "We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or […]
The experiences of transgendered men demonstrates that gender is still an issue in the workplace.
The week buzzed by … and we actually end with a bang (albeit a cloudy one). Dr. Boris Behncke brings us news that Etna seemed to have another eruption, however […]
The real challenge for Internet freedom? U.S. hypocrisy. And there's no app for that. Secretary Clinton's speech on Internet freedom didn't address the U.S. and Internet oppression.
The war in Afghanistan is based on four lies, including the premise that NATO allies are there to fight international terrorism. Negotiating with the Taliban is the only solution.
Biology and the natural world are helping economists build new models to understand the dynamics of the financial sector and why the sub prime loan crisis caused so much damage.