By Erika Hayasaki — 2018
Studying twins has long offered insight into the interplay of nature and nurture. Epigenetics is the next frontier.
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CLEAR ALL
A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.
The program Brushes with Cancer pairs patients with artists whose works make visible a disease that can be invisible and isolating.