Something new...
So, I am a huge nerd. Pretty much everyone who is close to me knows this quite well. But I'm thinking of taking it to a new level... MAGIC CARDS! (hah, Eddie :P )
No, I'm kidding.
Actually, I'm thinking about starting a blog about cancer research and my time as a graduate student, and my work. My dad sent me an e-mail he got, and it was about the Campaign to Conquer Cancer. One of the aspects of it, is getting people talking about it more, and getting graduate students (like moi) to discuss things more, and be more active on promoting cancer education, awareness, and prevention through social media. I'm all for it. I actually sent them an e-mail to see if they were still looking for contributors the C2CC blog.
Like my dad says, maybe it'll be my new cause. Since Stand is done for me now.
Also, for my birthday, Dad sent me the book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer". It's written by a clinical oncologist from the US, and it's so GD interesting! It's written really well, so that the average (or...educated, rather) person would be able to understand it. Basic knowledge of biology and cells are needed, to be sure. Honestly though, it's the 4000 year history of cancer, how it develops, how it acts... anyways, he writes really well. Just read this bit in the book, and I loved the way he wrote it:
“If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration (the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung), then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning - the pathology of excess. Cancer is an expansionist disease; it invades through tissues, sets up colonies in hostile landscapes, seeking “sanctuary” in one organ and then immigrating to another. It lives desperately, inventively, fiercely, territorially, cannily, and defensively - at all times, as if teaching us how to survive. To confront cancer is to encounter a parallel species, one perhaps more adapted to survival than even we are.”
Yup, morbid. But that being said... I'm growing cancer cells in a dish in my lab right now. And in a few weeks, I'll be testing ways that things in our diet can kill the cells. This, potentially, is a big deal.
Just sayin'
No, I'm kidding.
Actually, I'm thinking about starting a blog about cancer research and my time as a graduate student, and my work. My dad sent me an e-mail he got, and it was about the Campaign to Conquer Cancer. One of the aspects of it, is getting people talking about it more, and getting graduate students (like moi) to discuss things more, and be more active on promoting cancer education, awareness, and prevention through social media. I'm all for it. I actually sent them an e-mail to see if they were still looking for contributors the C2CC blog.
Like my dad says, maybe it'll be my new cause. Since Stand is done for me now.
Also, for my birthday, Dad sent me the book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer". It's written by a clinical oncologist from the US, and it's so GD interesting! It's written really well, so that the average (or...educated, rather) person would be able to understand it. Basic knowledge of biology and cells are needed, to be sure. Honestly though, it's the 4000 year history of cancer, how it develops, how it acts... anyways, he writes really well. Just read this bit in the book, and I loved the way he wrote it:
“If consumption once killed its victims by pathological evisceration (the tuberculosis bacillus gradually hollows out the lung), then cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells; it is consumption in its alternate meaning - the pathology of excess. Cancer is an expansionist disease; it invades through tissues, sets up colonies in hostile landscapes, seeking “sanctuary” in one organ and then immigrating to another. It lives desperately, inventively, fiercely, territorially, cannily, and defensively - at all times, as if teaching us how to survive. To confront cancer is to encounter a parallel species, one perhaps more adapted to survival than even we are.”
Yup, morbid. But that being said... I'm growing cancer cells in a dish in my lab right now. And in a few weeks, I'll be testing ways that things in our diet can kill the cells. This, potentially, is a big deal.
Just sayin'