The last lecture by Dr. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, on “How to Achieve Your Childhood Dreams.” He’s amazingly chipper, despite the fact that his pancreatic cancer is likely to kill him in the next few months, and it’s got a bit of a “Chicken Soup for the Soul” feel […]
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dying professor gives one last lecture
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: cancer · darn tootin' · do something · movies/tv/video · neato · philosophy
rabies-like virus kills brain cancer in mice
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Very cool article on using a virus related to rabies to fight brain cancer:
Now researchers at Yale University have found that a virus that’s in the same family as rabies effectively kills an aggressive form of human brain cancer in mice. Using time-lapse laser imaging, the team watched vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) rapidly home in […]
