A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanity''s darkest diagnosis.
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"Tripping over the Truth will have profound consequences for how cancer is managed and prevented."-Thomas N. Seyfried, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease
In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project''s failure to provide a legible roadmap to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of old and new perspectives on the disease. Tripping over the Truth follows the story of cancer-s proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age to modern laboratories around the world. The reader is taken on a journey through time and science that results in an unlikely connecting of the dots with profound therapeutic implications.
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