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The Cancer Open Source Tissue Repository

The Cancer Open Source Tissue Repository will spare patients from late-stage slash, poison and burn; it will save lives and prevent financial disaster. It will give deep new insights into the origins of cancer; and lead to treatments that find cancer before it finds us.

The Repository, founded by Dr. Azra Raza, solves FIVE problems at once:

  • Detects cancer at Stage Negative One for the people at highest risk – cancer patients in remission.
  • Gives doctors and patients the chance to pre-empt recurring cancer and treat it early – while it’s still manageable and inexpensive
  • Pinpoints the earliest origin of first cancer cells
  • Gives unprecedented data on early stage cancer (right now, 90% of cancer data is Stage 3 & 4) including anonymized patient history
  • Makes this data available FREE instead of being locked in institutional silos

A group of blue-chip hospitals including Columbia, Harvard and Johns Hopkins has agreed to take blood, saliva, stool, urine, fingernail and hair samples from cancer patients in remission, every time they come back for checkups.

This video by Perry Marshall explains the project, which has already begun at Columbia University in New York City:

The ReversingCancer newsletter describes the project in detail.

Click here to donate to this world-changing project.

REVIEW: How Life Works by Philip Ball

Biology is an incredibly conservative profession. As the famous saying goes, “Science proceeds one funeral at a time.” The situation the author is dealing with is: the public has been fed a tragically over simplified version of science. Accurate information needs to replace long-standing misconceptions.

Philip Ball’s “How Life Works” sets a new standard for biology.

However, if you are too overt in stating this, the wrath of the old guard will be visited upon you. The emperor is wearing a thong… but please don’t embarrass him.

The bestselling book “Selfish Gene” convinced an entire generation that biology is really quite simple and evolution is simple. Everything is controlled by genes which are randomly mutated; it is really the genes which are selected, not organisms; so the purpose of every organism is to simply proliferate its own genes.

This is incredibly easy to explain and seemed like a revelation to a lot of people. But it was just brain candy. Read more »

How Life Works by Philip Ball: New Crack in the Berlin Wall

Philip Ball’s new book “How Life Works” is an outstanding introduction to the new biology that transcends the dead-on-arrival textbook version of evolution that has kept science stuck in the 1970s for so long.

Philip Ball’s “How Life Works” sets a new standard for biology.

Denis Noble wrote a beautiful review of Ball’s book in Nature Magazine, saying “It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life. The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight.

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A Superior Definition of Cancer

Michael Levin posted this excellent video offering a new definition of cancer:
 
Check out this amazing video project by Harvard student Jordan Strasserabout cancer in the broader context of multiscale complex systems:
 
 
 

Oxford Professor Denis Noble takes down “The Selfish Gene”

The Selfish Gene was the best selling science book of the 20th century. But The Selfish Gene got cause and effect backwards, assigning agency to natural selection instead of the organism itself. It embraced the greatest errors of the Modern Synthesis while downplaying much of what it got right. 

“It crowned the gene king of biology, even though genes are only servants of the cell. Gene-centric duality caused genomics to promise far more than it could, or ever can deliver, since it cannot distinguish between correlation and functional causation. 

“That failure has been at great cost to health care by promising miracle genetic cures that have not met the greatest challenge to health services for ageing populations caused by complex multi-factorial diseases that cannot be reduced to genetic causation.

“Thus did The Selfish Gene turn Neo-Darwinism into a pop religion with its own dogmas, dressed up as science, but without the gold standard of a scientific hypothesis: an empirical test independent of the central assumption of the theory. Read more »

Marco Masi: Is your brain the source of consciousness? Or is it more like an antenna?

Are your sense of “self” and your experiences and memories just a set of brain states? Is a human basically a wet computer? Or is your brain just a mechanism for channeling these things into the physical world?

Physicist Marco Masi is fascinated with consciousness studies and evolution. He lives in Germany.

Are we purely physical beings? Or are our minds extensions of something larger?

Marco Masi’s new paper “An evidence-based critical review of the mind-brain identity theory” challenges the current materialistic view. 

Masi points out cases of people living normal lives despite missing large chunks of their brains from birth defects, surgery, or disease… like a man missing 75% of his brain tissue. Read more »

ANTHROBOTS: Breakthrough from Michael Levin

Michael Levin at Tufts University has stumbled into a new universe. Today (30 Nov 2023) he released a new paper revealing that when nurtured outside the body, human lung cells can morph into autonomous organisms that can repair damaged nerve tissues. These creatures are called “Anthrobots.”

 Michael Levin at Tufts University has discovered “Anthrobots” – human tissue cells that self-organize as autonomous creatures.

Michael writes: “We envision many future uses in the human body – laying down pro-regenerative molecules, clearing plaque from arteries, healing spinal cord or retinal damage, dealing with cancer cells or bacteria in the gut, or informing us of the status of the surrounding tissues.

“It’s crucial to note that the effect we saw – healing the neuronal scratch – was not test #78 out of hundreds of things we attempted. This was one of the first assays we tried.”

Michael’s team removed lung cells, fed them and gave them time to develop. The cells re-shaped themselves; and the cells’ cilia, the little hairs that normally push dirt and mucous on the surface of the lung, developed into organs for propelling these cells. They are highly mobile. Read more »

Why Evolution is Quantum

In my paper “The Role of Quantum Mechanics in Cognition Based Evolution,” I propose a new perspective on biology: thinking creates codes, which in turn control chemicals, much like a brain sending instructions to the body.

This challenges the traditional view in biology where it’s believed chemicals create codes leading to consciousness. There’s no evidence to support this traditional view in biology – only speculation.

Watch my live presentation “From Quantum Mechanics to ChatGPT” HERE.

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