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I Travel With Microscopes
I have a super huge, somewhat tattered, and quite ugly suitcase that sits in my office. This suitcase is not packed with clothes or extra large toiletries, but contains a pretty cool microscope,...
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How a Jellyfish Changed Everything
Source: Wikimedia Commons Look closely at the beautiful glowing jellyfish next time you are in an aquarium. Slowly raise your hand, put it near the glass and say, “Thank you jellyfish, you are...
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Cracking Cancer’s Code To Unlock New Treatments
Each year in the United States we lose close to 600,000 people from cancer (source:American Cancer Society). This is almost the same number of deaths as there have been in all US war combat-related...
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Can Apple’s Healthkit hold your personal genome
By Adam Marcus, PhD & Suresh Ramalingam, MD Photo courtesy of Yutaka Tsutano The next great wave of healthcare advances will most likely involve a 3 billion letter code known as your genome. Your...
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Nature, Nurture, and Eddie Murphy
The movie Trading Places was an ’80s classic about two wealthy commodity brokers who make a bet. They wager on whether a homeless street hustler, played by Eddie Murphy, can become a successful...
View ArticleTEDx Talk “Every Cancer is Personal”
My recent talk at TEDx Peachtree on the next great revolution in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Blog post to follow shortly…
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This post originally appeared on the Advancing Your Health on 12/9/14 by Adam Marcus As a cancer researcher, I’ve delivered plenty of lectures, but nothing compares with a talk I gave in October to an...
View ArticlePlugging Cell Biology Into a Genomic World
By Adam Marcus, PhD This post originally appeared on the AACR Cancer Research Catalyst Blog and is intended for researchers Personalized oncology epitomizes the concept of interdisciplinary research...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Precision
This post originally appeared in The Scientist The amount of genetic variation between cancer patients is astounding. Two people diagnosed with cancer in the same organ may, in fact, have two very...
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Next-Generation Scientists
As children we have all been to the doctor, visited the dentist, perhaps even sat in the cockpit of a plane. Anyone ever sit in front of a cryo-electron microscope, play with the dials on a mass...
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