cell not a pill
" What number or fraction of reactions can actually be targeted by the entire pharmacopeia - all of medicinal chemistry? That number is 250 out of a Million. The rest is chemical darkness. In other words, 0.025 percent of all chemical reactions in your body are actually targetable by this lock-and-key mechanism "
Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee ( Who is a is a Oncologist and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University who Studied biology at Stanford University, obtained a D.Phil. from University of Oxford, and an M.D. from Harvard University) points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal. He received the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. |
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