

Every few months someone discovers that cancer cells are “uniquely vulnerable” and the headline writes itself. Tumors make carbon monoxide, so now they’ll be tricked into making their own poison. Great. Was anyone seriously expecting a lab bench to be a clinic? Early-stage, cells in a dish, and we’re back to “could one day.” I’ve read this exact story in four different outfits, same mouse, new adjective.











Ha. A mirror-image helix on a book about genes, and nobody at the printer caught it. Evolution would have culled the proofreader for that.