Athena Aktipis
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first heard Jan 2026
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And in fact, when you.
When you look at, you sort of, you know, take this sort of like grounded in theories of evolution of multicellularity approach with these, you know, foundations of multicellularity, and you map that on to, you know, how have cancer biologists looked at the phenotypes of cancer?
So there's this framework called the
hallmarks of cancer, that sort of classic work, the breakdown in those foundations of multicellularity map very well onto the hallmarks of cancer.
And, you know, we don't have to get into the details of this, but there's a couple places where it doesn't match up 100%, which are actually like really interesting and useful then to sort of take these frameworks from thinking of the evolution of multicellularity and ask, are we missing something in how we're defining cancer?
Like division of labor is
originally was not really part of the hallmarks framework.
And, you know, we suggested that, you know, a breakdown in differentiation should be considered a hallmark of cancer.
And now things are kind of coming around to that, that actually being, you know, part of how people are looking at, you know, the sort of next generation now of the hallmarks of cancer.
It's a good example of where, you know, that sort of cross-fertilization between the fields and being able to have, you know, collaborators and expertise and, you know, reading in both fields and really trying to bring things together can lead to new insights.
So, yeah, so I'll just put a pin in that one.
It's like, okay, you know, like this can, it can do things that you can't do if you just stay in one discipline.
It's got a little side hustle going on, you know?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, it is a big shift of perspective to, you know, especially as like somebody who's trained in evolutionary biology.
And, you know, like the default is to think about evolution as this really, really, really slow thing.
Right.
But if you if you think about like, what do the parameters of evolution look like?
within the body for cells that are evolving, you know, or potentially evolving inside the body.
You have super short generation times.
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