Tag: Somatic

The title refers to the effect that being enslaved had on his grandmother; Menakem traces the violence of racism through the specific perspectives of people on either end of racial conflicts. Beyond just explaining how racism affects all of us in variable ways, he provides specific exercises for ove...

As a hematologist, I am fascinated with our blood system and how certain blood cells develop cancer through mutations in their genetic code. On the other hand, I have often seen how these mutations drive the deadly nature of cancer. In my early years as a physician, I took care of a 30-year-old woma...

“The problem lies not so much in developing new ideas, but in escaping from old ones” John Maynard Keynes By 2009, it was clear that the somatic mutation theory (SMT) — that cancer was simply a random collection of genetic mutations — was leading exactly nowhere. Billions ...