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The Health Issue: An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death

In the years following his breakthrough, Warburg became convinced that the Warburg effect occurs because cells are unable to use oxygen properly and that this damaged respiration is, in effect, the starting point of cancer. Well into the 1950s, this theory — which Warburg believed in until his death in 1970 but never proved —… Read More: The Health Issue: An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to… »

The Health Issue: The Improvisational Oncologist

Bathed in a nutrient-rich broth suffused with growth factors, the cells will double and redouble in an incubator over the course of the following two weeks, forming a lush outgrowth of malignant cells — cancer abstracted in a dish. A computer, taught to count and evaluate cells, will then determine whether any of the drugs… Read More: The Health Issue: The Improvisational Oncologist »

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