Henrietta Lackes lacks telomeres. She just doesn't have any!
Theoretically, if my life goal is to cure cancer, where should I start? PHD in biology?
Julian Hall
Nathan Collins
Do what you are inspired by. It will all contribute.
Adrian Carter
It's been discussed but the problem is the cancer cells don't do their jobs. Think of a workplace that is slowly filled with people shuffling around pretending to work but not actually doing any work. They try to pick up the slack but it's a war they can't win, eventually office collapses.
Sebastian Evans
>There is already research into telemeters, user.
>research into telemeters
>telemeters
Joseph Stewart
Sure, a PhD would be a good route.
When it comes to a PhD, your program (say, molecular biology vs. genetics vs. biochemistry) is less important than your lab and your PI.
Join a lab in undergrad. Attend seminars, read literature. Start poking around for fields and labs that interest you. Look up those labs and PIs on their websites. They should list whether they're taking students, what programs they're affiliated with, etc. Plus, it never hurts to email. When I was looking at labs before grad school, many PIs were surprisingly receptive to cold emails regarding taking grad students. (Specify you're a grad student; they get bombarded from "pre-meds" who don't give a shit about research and just want to go to med school.)
Noah Nelson
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Easton Brown
You could become a sunscreen salesman at the beach. Or throw a bomb into a cigarette company. Or do a phd in biology.
Lincoln Reyes
PhD in Compuataional Science and Engineering or CS and focus on AI/ML.
Why would you want to join the ranks upon ranks of biologists that spend their entire career studying a single protein? There are thousands of those papers published a year. The only hope of curing cancer is to use big data techniques to combine the brianlet-tier work into something meaningful.
Brody Perry
That's pretty common when you're dead.
Sebastian Green
Curing cancer is an interdisciplinary goal.
Biology, organic chemistry, bioinformatics, materials science, polymers, and biomedical engineering can all get you to the point where you can help. Find the one you like.