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Tyrannosaurus rex,
1.1
,
1.2
uranium,
2.1
,
5.1
,
11.1
Utah,
1.1
,
1.2
uterine cancer,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC),
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
12.1
uterus,
2.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
10.1
vemurafenib (Zelboraf),
12.1
,
12.2
vertebrae
Virchow, Rudolf,
4.1
,
10.1
viruses, cancer caused by,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.1
,
10.2
Vivian (author’s neighbor),
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
Vogelstein, Bert,
nts.1
,
nts.2
War on Cancer,
7.1
,
13.1
Watson, James,
5.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
weeds, as metaphor for cancer,
4.1
,
13.1
Weinberg, Robert,
9.1
,
9.2
,
13.1
women
World Health Organization,
7.1
,
13.1
in cancer therapy,
5.1
,
11.1
as cause of cancer,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1
,
11.1
Yamagiwa, Katsusaburo,
10.1
,
epl.1
Zelboraf (vemurafenib),
12.1
,
12.2
zinc sulfide,
5.1
,
epl.1
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

George Johnson has written about science for
The New York Times
,
National Geographic Magazine
,
Slate
,
Scientific American
,
Wired
,
The Atlantic
, and other publications. His nine books, which are being translated into fifteen languages, include
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
and
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order
. He has twice been a finalist for the Royal Society’s science book prize. A winner of the AAAS Science Journalism Award, he is codirector of the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop and a former Alicia Patterson fellow. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and can be found on the Web at talaya.net.

ALSO BY GEORGE JOHNSON

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order

In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads

Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence

Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics

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