Cancer Biology for Patients — Episode 1

You’re here because you want to take charge of your disease. You don’t want to sit back and let it happen to you — you want to understand it and outsmart it. To hack your cancer, you have to learn its secrets and grasp how it operates. This will help you to…

Cancer Biology for Patients — Episode 3

“Those who have not been trained in chemistry or medicine may not realize how difficult the problem of cancer treatment really is. It is almost — not quite, but almost — as hard as finding some agent that will dissolve away the left ear, say, and leave the…

Kanker biologie voor patiënten - deel 1

Vertaling van het persoonlijk verslag van Andrew Evans, bio-informaticus, vertaald door Bianca Oei. Grip krijgen op de ziekte kanker.

Dit bericht is voor mensen die net als ik in een situatie zitten waarin je meer wilt weten over de…

Welcome, Initiate, to the Central Dogma!

We’ve come a long way in a short time on Hack My Cancer — so far, we’ve explored a bit about cells and their DNA, and how DNA damage can lead to cancer. We’ve taken some detours into looking at what a gene is, and how the cellular machinery forms “pathways”…

Sidebar: What’s a Gene?

I’m going to do some posts on some of these common terms that we hear all the time, but may not really know too much about or have thought about a lot. So here we go with the first one — the gene.

She Blinded Me With Science — or, 4 Tips for Critical Reading for the Internet Age

“Everything you read on the Internet is true.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Kanker biologie voor patiënten — deel 2

Vertaling van het persoonlijk verslag van Andrew Evans, bio-informaticus, vertaald door Bianca Oei. Grip krijgen op de ziekte kanker.

Welkom terug, Cancer Hackers, we starten met een goed begrip over de basisbegrippen die wij nodig…