TY - JOUR
T1 - Endless forms most beautiful a garden shows that cancer is a part of life
AU - Winfrey, Pamela
AU - Robertson, Caspian
AU - Maley, Carlo
AU - Aktipis, Athena
N1 - Funding Information: The adaptive therapy trial at the Arizona Mayo Clinic is funded by the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission grant ADHS18-198847. The Arizona Cancer Evolution Center is funded by NIH Grant U54 CA217376. This work was additionally supported in part by NIH grants U2C CA233254, P01 CA91955, R01 CA149566, R01 CA170595, R01 CA185138 and R01 CA140657, as well as CDMRP Breast Cancer Research Program Award BC132057. The findings, opinions and recommenda - tions expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the universities where the research was performed or the National Institutes of Health. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 ISAST.
PY - 2021/8/9
Y1 - 2021/8/9
N2 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful is a crested cactus garden that embodies both an aesthetic and a medically transformative approach to cancer. The cacti in this garden have mutations in their meristem cells causing uncontrolled growths-which are, by some definitions, cancer. The garden was installed near the new Biodesign Institute C building on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. Crested cacti and other fasciated plants are examples of organisms that live with cancer but do not die from it. These plants help to widen the framework for thinking about what cancer is and how to live with it and, ultimately, inspired a new center, the Arizona Cancer Evolution (ACE) Center, which investigates cancer across forms of life.
AB - Endless Forms Most Beautiful is a crested cactus garden that embodies both an aesthetic and a medically transformative approach to cancer. The cacti in this garden have mutations in their meristem cells causing uncontrolled growths-which are, by some definitions, cancer. The garden was installed near the new Biodesign Institute C building on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. Crested cacti and other fasciated plants are examples of organisms that live with cancer but do not die from it. These plants help to widen the framework for thinking about what cancer is and how to live with it and, ultimately, inspired a new center, the Arizona Cancer Evolution (ACE) Center, which investigates cancer across forms of life.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01915
DO - https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01915
M3 - Article
SN - 0024-094X
VL - 54
SP - 398
EP - 401
JO - Leonardo
JF - Leonardo
IS - 4
ER -