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Excellent PBS documentary you ironically refer to... http://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/ http://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-al
by Outdoorsman 11y ago
Excellent PBS documentary you ironically refer to...
http://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/ http://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/
Quite a beast to conquer, for the reason you stated...errant DNA replication, probably the single most powerful software on Earth, gone beserk...
Obama's "moonshot" reference likely refers to a proposed attempt at re-centralizing the efforts of earlier research projects, to consolidate and benefit from known gains...
"Moonshot" is probably simply the hyperbole choice of a speechwriter, designed to inflate the magnitude and importance of the endeavor...
- adenadel 11y agoThe book is excellent as well http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/dp/1439170916/ http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/...
- ggreer 11y agoFor those interested in reading this book: Your mileage may vary. I wanted to like it, but I couldn't get over the writing. It had so many flourishes and unnecessary descriptions that I stopped reading halfway through.