Cancer: The cost of being smarter than chimps?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 07:35
in Health & Medicine
Are the cognitively superior brains of humans, in part, responsible for our higher rates of cancer? That's a question that has nagged at John McDonald, chair of Georgia Tech's School of Biology and chief research scientist at the Ovarian Cancer Institute, for a while. Now, after an initial study, it seems that McDonald is on to something.