Fighting cancer darwin'S way

• Autores: Michael Slezak
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2922, 2013, págs. 6-7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Knowing he had just months to live, and that any knowledge gleaned would be too late to help him, the man known as Patient Two underwent two last painful biopsies. In doing so, he's believed to be the first person to have his cancer's evolution traced from its first appearance to its last, lethal mutation. Genomic analysis of his tumors over the span of the disease could help figure out how to stop cancer from evolving its deadliest characteristics--its ability to spread throughout the body and its uncanny knack of developing resistance to drugs. That's the aim of several research groups around the world who are trying to understand the disease by looking at it from a Darwinian perspective. Here, Slezak looks at some Darwinian-inspired approach.