#somaticmutationtheory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #somaticmutationtheory, aggregated by home.social.
-
Something new and interesting to think about:
"The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer", Huang et al. 2025
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003052"The (apparent) paradox goes both ways: many cancers harbor no consistent driver mutations, while canonical oncogenic mutations are found in tissues that remain free of cancer [16] (see Table 1 for references). Paradoxes, according to Nils Bohr, are of course central for progress [17]—if properly recognized."