This is way overhyped. There are all kinds of bioinformatics models for cancer growth and metastisis. There are hundreds of systems biology labs out there who have long viewed cancer as a network that can be compared to other networks (electronic mapping diagrams, the Internet, airline routes, etc.) This particular paper is no "breakthrough". It's part of a mounting pile of evidence that cancer growth can be analyzed in this way. What's important is what basic research scientists find out about cancer by using this model, not the creation of the model itself.
I feel like I've been in a fog the last two days. Normally, these school shootings don't get to me, but this one did. Things look differently, children seem dangerous. I feel like I'm in a state of shock. Maybe it's the horrific details. Maybe it's because those kids remind me so much of myself in high school (save for the Nazi crosses). Whatever the reason, the Denver killings have touched me to the core. But this is what I wanted to say: I was in a electronics store last night and I stopped by the computer game section. For the first time in my life, I questioned why I found it fun to kill people on a computer screen. I couldn't come up with an answer that had any more logic than the rationale that was swimming in those kids' minds. I don't think that Doom or Natural Born Killers caused this to happen. But I don't think I will ever be able to buy a shoot-em-up video game again.
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This is way overhyped. There are all kinds of bioinformatics models for cancer growth and metastisis. There are hundreds of systems biology labs out there who have long viewed cancer as a network that can be compared to other networks (electronic mapping diagrams, the Internet, airline routes, etc.) This particular paper is no "breakthrough". It's part of a mounting pile of evidence that cancer growth can be analyzed in this way. What's important is what basic research scientists find out about cancer by using this model, not the creation of the model itself.
I feel like I've been in a fog the last two days. Normally, these school shootings don't get to me, but this one did. Things look differently, children seem dangerous. I feel like I'm in a state of shock. Maybe it's the horrific details. Maybe it's because those kids remind me so much of myself in high school (save for the Nazi crosses). Whatever the reason, the Denver killings have touched me to the core. But this is what I wanted to say: I was in a electronics store last night and I stopped by the computer game section. For the first time in my life, I questioned why I found it fun to kill people on a computer screen. I couldn't come up with an answer that had any more logic than the rationale that was swimming in those kids' minds. I don't think that Doom or Natural Born Killers caused this to happen. But I don't think I will ever be able to buy a shoot-em-up video game again.