• Question: What is the most challenging thing about being a cancer cell biologist?

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      Asked by anon-285886 to Isolda on 4 Mar 2021.
      • Photo: Isolda Romero-Canelon

        Isolda Romero-Canelon answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        Cancer cells are very smart, so to find a way of killing them, you have to be always a step ahead of them, and sometimes that is very difficult. Other times, the challenge is to see the big picture.

        For example, if you imagine each cell as a house, it would be very easy to look for something only in the sitting room or maybe in the kitchen and not find it… and all this time the answer was in the bedroom!… so, you have to look at the whole thing

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