Evolution 2.0December 21, 2021, is the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon declaring that cancer was going to be ended by 1976. Many media outlets are celebrating progress when, in fact, the progress isn’t all that impressive. Azra Raza, Columbia University oncologist, speaks candidly about her entry into the cancer field at age 24, the years that have passed, and incredibly promising research that has now commenced from the 60,000 tissue samples that she has collected from her patients across 30 years of practice. Here she describes her quest to catch the first cancer cell red-handed as it is forming.
50th Anniversary of Nixon’s War on Cancer with Azra RazaEvolution 2.02022-03-24 | December 21, 2021, is the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon declaring that cancer was going to be ended by 1976. Many media outlets are celebrating progress when, in fact, the progress isn’t all that impressive. Azra Raza, Columbia University oncologist, speaks candidly about her entry into the cancer field at age 24, the years that have passed, and incredibly promising research that has now commenced from the 60,000 tissue samples that she has collected from her patients across 30 years of practice. Here she describes her quest to catch the first cancer cell red-handed as it is forming.Courage Fueled by Curiosity = LoveEvolution 2.02024-09-17 | Why are important conversations so difficult and why is curiosity the greatest virtue? Dov Baron from British Columbia describes the emotional source code rules that govern our conversations about politics, religion, evolution, cancer and relationships.
Dov Baron has a unique ability to stab at the roots of a problem and recognize its signature pattern. It’s amazing to watch him problem solve in real time and he’s famous for navigating difficult conversations.
His website is dovbaron.com.Irreducible Mind: Why the Current Paradigm is past its expiration date with Edward KellyEvolution 2.02024-09-17 | Edward Kelly is a neuroscientist whose research overturns the current popular definition of the mind. We had a fantastic conversation about his non-traditional path in scientific research. He is a scientist at the University of Virginia.Reversing Cancer: The Secret Life of Giant Cancer CellsEvolution 2.02024-09-09 | Cancer is evolution run amok. This video explains how stressed cells in our body can trigger cancer, the role of Polyploid Giant Cancer Cells in cancer's early stages, and new approaches to early detection and treatment.
Discover the potential for a $25 test that could revolutionize cancer screening, the challenges of selling prevention over cure, and the exciting possibility of actually reversing cancer.
Featuring insights from researchers at Columbia and Tufts University, this offers a fresh perspective on the war against cancer and why our current approaches might be fundamentally flawed.
This clip is from the Hard Knocks podcast hardknocks.comThe Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Life SciencesEvolution 2.02024-06-12 | Well-known biologist and author Sy Garte, author of the new book “Science and Faith in Harmony” joins Perry. They explore the alignment between science and faith and probe purpose in biology. They discuss the challenges of applying mathematical concepts to biological systems, recognizing that EVERY rule in biology has an exception. The two discuss changing norms in academic discourse, the new journal Biocosmos and “The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Life Sciences.”Detecting Cancer at Stage Negative One - Perry Marshall at SBMTEvolution 2.02024-05-31 | Perry Marshall spoke at the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics 21st annual conference in Los Angeles, 16 March 2024. He describes how outdated textbook evolution is inhibiting research and keeping us stuck in the old, gene-centric paradigm, and how the Polyploid Giant Cancer Cell model, advocated at a recent conference at MD Anderson in Houston, is a far more elegant model for detecting and treating cancer at the very earliest stages.A Special Reversing Cancer Update from Perry MarshallEvolution 2.02023-12-20 | We have a profound, brand new opportunity – a chance to revolutionize how the world diagnoses and treats cancer (and other diseases) at the earliest stages.
On the presentation I’ll show you how every dollar you donate can directly contribute to identifying and addressing cancer long before it escalates.Understanding Living Systems with Ray and Denis NobleEvolution 2.02023-10-22 | The overwhelming success of genetics and molecular biology in the 1970s had an unfortunate side effect. DNA became the 'be all' and 'end all' of biology and “the selfish gene” became the new secular pop religion. Physiology and medicine suffered great blows from this shift. The human genome project, though valuable, did not deliver even 10% of what it promised and the consequences to healthcare have been devastating. The new book Understanding Living Systems by Raymond and Denis Noble is an easy-to-read guide to the New Biology that brings purpose back into nature and respects the agency and autonomy of each organism and its systems.
Denis Noble website: dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/denis-noble Ray Noble website: iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RNOBL24Why You Must Be In Vancouver Sept 23 & 24Evolution 2.02023-09-10 | Bob Regnerus digs into the real story behind Azra Raza's day long fireside chat in Vancouver, British Columbia Sept 23 & 24, 2023. Full information at evo2.org/vancouver.The Truth About AI that not 1 Video in 100 is AcknowledgingEvolution 2.02023-08-07 | Bryan Trilli is a serial entrepreneur who owns a company called Optimized Marketing that trains machine learning programmers to write better code. In this interview, he forcefully challenges the fiction of the “AI Singularity” showing that it’s impossible for this to happen given current technology. Consequently, we are asking all of the wrong questions. In this interview, we discuss what the real questions are.Johnjoe McFadden: Occams Razor and Quantum BiologyEvolution 2.02023-08-02 | Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is the best. While it's application has many subtleties, it tells us that the best model of theory is the one that's most elegant and invokes the fewest extraneous explanations. Johnjoe McFadden is a professor at the University of Surrey in the UK and we discuss simplicity and the mind-bending world of quantum biology.When Dinosaur Books Are More Dangerous Than Playboy MagazineEvolution 2.02023-05-03 | Scott Ransom’s mom grounded him from the nonfiction section of the library so that he would not be corrupted by evolutionary ideas from godless secular scientists. But the questions persisted and the fascination grew. Many years later, he’s written a book reconciling modern evolutionary science with ancient Hebrew texts. His book ...And It Was So: How Modern Science Sheds New Light on the Biblical Account of Creation goes far beyond the stereotypical debates to land in new insights.
Scott's website: www.ransombooks.comNature’s Invisible Symphony: The Sounds of Life with Karen BakkerEvolution 2.02023-03-22 | Did you know that 99% of the sounds in nature are at frequencies we cannot hear? Karen Bakker opens up an entire universe of sounds and communication between elephants, whales, moths, trees, tissues and even cells. The world around us is buzzing with communication and meaning that few of us ever suspected. Karen’s book The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants tells stories that will amaze you and she shares some of them in this interview.The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AIInterview with Nick ChatrathEvolution 2.02023-03-07 | For many years, we humans have bench-marked ourselves against machines without even realizing it. Many scientists believe that humans really are just machines. Nick Chatrath sharply disagrees and says that the age of AI is going to demand that humans be more human than ever before. He insists that we've never needed a bridge between science and the humanities more than we need it right now. This extends to all aspects of leadership and organization from startup companies to institutions and governments.
Nick Chatrath's book on Amazon: amazon.com/Threshold-Leading-Age-AI/dp/1635767989/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1676051551&sr=1-1From Rebellious Teenager to Young Adult: Intelligent Design Grows UpEvolution 2.02023-02-23 | Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute blogged about my interview with Joana Xavier lamenting that we did not fully endorse intelligent design. This created a perfect opportunity for us to sit down and talk with Paul in person and discuss our agreements and differences.
Here we explore the gray zone between “life is a miracle” and “no miracles allowed” and we ask the question: How can a design paradigm enhance medicine and science research? Joana Xavier is a researcher at University College London and is a staff member with Evolution 2.0.
Joana’s Website: jcxavier.orgNancy’s Cancer: We spent $2M and tried EVERYTHINGEvolution 2.02023-02-13 | Joe Riggio’s wife, Nancy, was given a maximum of 10 years to live in her cancer diagnosis. She lived for 17 years, most of them in a very active adventurous lifestyle. They spent $2M and pursued every alternative treatment imaginable. Here Dr. Joseph Riggio accounts in detail the journey with fascinating glimpses of many treatments that did prove effective. Our conversation closes with concluding thoughts about patient responsibility and the business of cancer.
josephriggio.comSpecial Live Zoom Session with Jenny DavisEvolution 2.02022-12-05 | Reversing Cancer needs your help. Some very specific help. . .
I’ve invited Jenny Davis to talk to me about her struggles in the academic and research communities that vividly illustrate the dragon we need to slay. I know you’ll find it fascinating, but more than that, I think it’s highly likely you can help us find a solution.The Biggest Mystery in the History of the Universe | Joana Xavier on the Origin of LifeEvolution 2.02022-09-24 | Joana Xavier is a rising star in the Origin of Life field. She is a researcher at University College London. She recently authored a paper with Stuart Kauffman on autocatalytic networks which are nature’s version of M.C. Escher’s hand drawing a hand. We discuss the uneasy relationship between professional scientists and Intelligent Design and then go on to discuss conflicts in academia, science funding and publishing.
Joana’s Website: jcxavier.org Joana’s paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsta.2021.0244Meeting Grendel’s Mother in the Spiritual SwampEvolution 2.02022-08-17 | “When Perry’s brother quit his missionary job and abandoned Christian faith, this plunged Perry into a deep crisis of questioning everything himself. And he decided to put Christian beliefs on the biggest public anvil he could find and invite the whole world to swing a hammer. This became an email list of two hundred and fifty thousand people, millions of website visitors, seven years in the largest atheist discussion board in the world, and in this talk he describes his journey through the darkness and what was left after the smoke cleared.From Evolution to Cancer: The Oral History of Our 7-year JourneyEvolution 2.02022-05-16 | The book Evolution 2.0 devotes two pages to the subject of cancer and it wasn't until two years after the book was published that this fact received any attention: It is not possible to understand cancer without an accurate understanding of evolution and vice versa.
In this interview with John McGee and Perry Marshall, you'll trace the history and see how this has expanded into five very exciting research projects.The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald HoffmanEvolution 2.02022-05-09 | Two leading pioneers in the field of cognition discuss the sea change that is underway in consciousness and evolution: Michael Levin is 10 years ahead of multiple fields in biology, producing extraordinary breakthroughs in limb regeneration, cancer, and bioengineering. Donald Hoffman is a champion of a new model that says the cosmos is consciousness first and matter second, not the other way around. The intersection of their ideas promises a universe of new possibilities grounded in testable hypotheses and solid engineering.Why the Bible Doesn’t Make Sense Without EvolutionEvolution 2.02022-05-02 | Why is there evil and suffering? Why is Old Testament Biblegod so mean and nasty? Why doesn’t God stop the injustice? Does God even have a right to create an evolutionary universe? Hear Perry's 18 minute talk at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Scientific Association (www.asa3.org), the largest organization of professional scientists who are practicing Christians.There’s More to Life than DescriptionEvolution 2.02022-04-17 | Science describes things by quantifying them - weighing, measuring and counting - but there is a dimension of being that goes beyond all these things. Science, despite its “objectivity”, is a feature of that subjective world. Anthony O’Hear OBE, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham, UK, discusses his new book Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation and explains why faith, hope and love make more sense of the human experience and even of science itself.Who Knew Water to be this ControversialEvolution 2.02022-04-11 | Description: Little do most people know that water appears to have remarkable properties that your middle school science textbooks told you nothing about, including memory and a “fourth phase”. This appears to have deep implications for medicine and biology. Gerald Pollack maintains an active laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle and is the author of Muscles and Molecules, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life and The Fourth Phase of Water. We discuss a mere scandalous run-in with Nature Magazine that resulted in the demise of a certain researcher’s career.
Links: pollacklab.org The Fourth Phase of Water book on Amazon.comRichard Jacobs | Donuts in the Oncology WardEvolution 2.02022-04-05 | Richard Jacobs of the Finding Genius Podcast has written a new book called Finding Genius: Understanding Cancer: 30 Questions, 70 Geniuses, 200+ Amazing Insights in which he interviews 70 scientists covering 30 questions about cancer research overlayed with his own personal experience of thyroid cancer. Hint: The cancer treatment ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Beware of donuts and snack machines.Agency of the Cell:Convergence between Origin of Life, Evolution, Cognition and CancerEvolution 2.02022-03-08 | Presented at the American Association of Cancer Research "Evolutionary Dynamics" Conference, Tampa, Florida, March 2022. // All cells exhibit agency and evolve purposefully. This is why cancer has outwitted doctors for 100 years and why Stage 3-4 patients are no better in 2022 than in 1930. Evolution was presumed to be random and purposeless, yet all cells possess cognition (Shapiro 2020). Cell behavior is normally algorithmic, but uniquely responds to novel situations. This is what makes evolution (and cancer) possible. Cognition—sensing and responding to the environment—is the unifying principle behind the genetic code, origin of life, evolution, consciousness, artificial intelligence, and cancer. Thus the central question in biology is: What is the nature and origin of cognition? A solution to the origin of the genetic code, for which the presenter’s organization offers a $10 million prize, announced at the Royal Society in 2019, is an unsolved cognition problem. This choice is a non-deterministic action of a free agent with sensory capacity and memory. It is not computable from prior states. As well as reading and reacting to its environment, it anticipates future threats, chooses goals and reasons inductively. Computers do none of these things. This new model explains the futility of reducing most diseases to a single random or algorithmic component, and suggests we should treat cancer as an autonomous purposeful agent with unique identity and capacity to choose.A Nobel Prize Winner Warned Me Not To Question EvolutionEvolution 2.02022-01-02 | John Lennox is an Oxford mathematician who is the author of the new book Cosmic Chemistry. He's written many books about the relationship between science and religion and has debated Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. His new book candidly surveys the current state of evolutionary theory. Notable chapters include reviews of work by Denis Noble and James Shapiro. In this conversation that we had on the Oxford campus, John recounts his history of asking the big questions.
LINKS: Cosmic Chemistry on Amazon John Lennox's University of Oxford Faculty page John Lennox's WebsiteHow to Solve the Worlds Most Intractable ProblemsEvolution 2.02022-01-01 | In September 2021, a dozen entrepreneurs gathered in Chicago and had a seminal 3-day discussion and commissioning for solving the world’s most thorny, intractable issues. Bob Regnerus was there and here we discuss what happens when entrepreneurs shift their focus from creature comforts to curing the most wicked problems of the world.Genome Chaos: Henry Heng delivers where Charles Darwin fell shortEvolution 2.02021-12-31 | A conversation with Henry Heng and Rafe Furst.
It is seldom mentioned that Charles Darwin's Origin of Species failed to deliver what the title promised. The mechanisms in his book only deliver microevolution but not macroevolution. Henry Heng discovered a major puzzle piece in his study of cancer and it's called "Genome Chaos". Rafe Furst, a longtime collaborator of Henry's, joins us in exploring the real mechanism of evolutionary change and the true reasons for sexual reproduction. Rafe wrote a summary of Henry's work here. You can buy Henry's book here.
Rafe and Henry are starting a working group to explore evolutionary state-of-the-art breakthroughs and you can join their list by sending an email to genomearchitecturetheory@gmail.com.Richard Morgan: From Atheist & Card Carrying Richard Dawkins Fan to Born Again Christian (2011)Evolution 2.02021-11-17 | ...Perry Marshall: Evolution 3.0 & the Darwin Design Synthesis (2011)Evolution 2.02021-11-17 | ...Evolution 2 0 Prize Announcement at ASU (August 2017)Evolution 2.02021-11-16 | ...Quantum Entanglement, Psychic Phenomena and Consciousness with Dean RadinEvolution 2.02021-11-16 | Dean Radin discusses his new paper co-authored with Stuart Kauffman
Psychic phenomena have been meticulously documented in hundreds of controlled studies since the 1980s. Mainstream science publications resist acknowledging this but the quality and quantity of evidence is overwhelming. Dean Radin, who has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in Psychology, began discovering this decades ago and founded the Institute for Noetic Sciences. He recently joined forces with eminent scientist Stuart Kauffman to harmonize the observations with quantum theory. In this paper, the two scientists swing for the fences and attempt to unify consciousness, psychic phenomena and quantum mechanics. arxiv.org/abs/2101.01538 Dean and I discuss the implications of this.An Invisible World Buzzing with Communication and Excitement: Jon Lieff, MDEvolution 2.02021-11-13 | There are very very few people who can slice through the jargon of molecular biology and explain how cells talk to each other in a way that a highschool student can understand. But Jon Lieff has done exactly that and his book, NAME, is a guided tour of a microscopic world that is bursting with life... and stories...This book may change the way you see everything.
Jon Lieff's Book: The Secret Language of Cells jonlieffmd.com/book/the-secret-language-of-cellsRethinking Cancer with Bernhard StraussEvolution 2.02021-10-19 | A new book by MIT Press stresses the urgency of approaching cancer from new angles. Some are completely new. Others are 100 years old and never given the attention they deserve. Bernhard and I discuss his motivations for taking on this project and how complex systems are much more subtle than we humans prefer to believe.
Bernhard Strauss' Book: Rethinking Cancer https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rethinking-cancerChemo was like pouring bleach into my veins- Jenny DavisEvolution 2.02021-10-14 | Jenny Davis is a professional athlete from Scotland who found out she had bowel cancer 9 months ago. She tells her very personal story of chemotherapy treatments, introspection, detox and our broken medical system.
Links: jennydavis.org She also mentions Megan Macedo meganmacedo.comSiri is not going to wake up any soon: John Sonmez of Bulldog Mindset Talks with Perry about BiologyEvolution 2.02021-10-12 | John Sonmez interviews Perry Marshall and they discuss why it’s impossible for computers in their current form to become conscious; how modern mathematics speaks in a new way to age-old questions about free will; the nature of consciousness; the origin of life and the very nature of reality itself. All this is based on Perry’s paper “Biology transcends the limits of computation.”Childhood Trauma Causes Cancer; Therapy and Relationships HealEvolution 2.02021-09-07 | Eric Kuelker Ph.D. R.Psych. discusses reliable but little known research linking cancer and heart disease to traumatic life events and stress. It turns out that psychotherapy and relationship repair reduce the chances of cancer and factors like marriage extend life more than medical treatments do. This may extend it down to the cellular level.
Mark's paper is called "A Maximian Framework for Understanding Evolution". LINK: https://www.academia.edu/45035064/A_Maximian_Framework_for_Understanding_Evolution?email_work_card=view-paper
Mark Chenoweth received his M.Div. and Th.M. from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and is an adjunct professor at St. John’s University in New York. His articles have been published in scholarly journals such as St. Vladimir’s Quarterly, and he is hoping to soon begin a dissertation on the theology of St. Maximus the Confessor.Sam Devis of When Belief Dies in ConversationEvolution 2.02021-06-07 | Sam Devis is a former pastor who experienced a faith deconversion a couple of years ago similar to that of my brother, Bryan. After reading Evolution 2.0, Sam and I got together to discuss my journey from fundamentalism to where I am today. We cover many fascinating aspects from Darwinist Jerry Coyne's outrage to the nature of fundemenatlist belief structures to evolution and entrepreneurship to questions about the cosmos and freewill. Sam's website is https://linktr.ee/whenbeliefdies.How much money does it cost to solve cancer?Evolution 2.02021-05-24 | Why entrepreneurs are in a unique position to make greater progress in 10 years than the US government made in 50 - with 1/1000th the money.Origin of Life & Evolution: Proof these questions don’t have answersEvolution 2.02021-05-15 | Why does the world need both mathematical proof AND a $10 million prize verifying that we have failed to answer biology’s most basic questions? Why does the world need a science paper like “Biology transcends the limits of computation”? This video explains.
View the paper online in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology at sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610721000365Athena Aktipis: Zombie Cells Gone WildEvolution 2.02021-05-07 | Athena Aktipis, author of The Cheating Cell on Evolution, Cooperation, Cancer and Skin-In-The-Game Science
How does a psychology prof find herself writing a book on cancer evolution? And what does this have to do with the Zombie Apocalypse? Today’s conversation is with Dr. Athena Aktipis from Arizona State University, who hosts the Zombified podcast. We explore the not-so-obvious byproducts that emerge you change the rules of cooperation, and convention-defying breakthroughs in cancer treatment.
WEBSITE LINKS: Athena’s personal website: http://www.athenaaktipis.org Zombified podcast: www.Zombified.org The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer amzn.to/3caIZzp334 years after Isaac Newton: The Stuart Kauffman RevolutionEvolution 2.02021-05-06 | Construction is Not Computation, and the World is Not a Theorem
Einstein’s theory of relativity overturned Newtonian physics in the early 1900s. Nevertheless “Newtonian” thinking has remained firmly entrenched in science. Certainly all scientists now agree that at the subatomic level and at near light speed, quantum physics overtakes Newtonian physics. But this has had very little effect on biology, and has done nothing to overturn the “reductionist” view of science, which says that everything is merely the sum of its parts and all can be modeled by mathematics.
Stuart Kauffman and computer scientist Andrea Roli have written a new paper that proves evolving biology in principle cannot be reduced to computation. This is as devastating to materialistic science as Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem was to mathematics. In fact it is equivalent -because it shows that evolving organisms embody incompleteness. Induction not deduction. And induction cannot come from deduction; therefore biology is not strictly computational.
Thus Kauffman and Roli have pulled the rug out from under ultra-traditional views of physics. (Not everyone is going to be happy about this.) Here, Perry Marshall and Stuart Kauffman jazz improvise on the vast implications of this new, holistic view of the universe.
You can read their paper “The World is Not a Theorem” at tinyurl.com/stuartkauffmanAzra Raza How To Halt Cancer at “Stage NEGATIVE 1”Evolution 2.02021-05-05 | Today if you’re diagnosed with Stage 3 or Stage 4 cancer, your chances of surviving are no better than if you lived in 1930. But your chances are 100 times better when catch it early.
What if you could catch cancer SUPER early - years before any obvious indication of a problem?
And what if you could then solve the problem at its roots so it never recurs at all?
Azra Raza is an oncologist at Colombia University and author of The First Cell: The Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. Here she describes the First Cell Project. This is a collaboration with world class cancer researchers who have discovered how to identify “Giant Cells” that PREDATE and predict the generation of tumors YEARS in advance.
You’ll be privy to the incredibly moving story of Andrew, her daughter’s best friend who died of brain cancer at age 24… and the systemic problems that continue to plague the cancer field and repeat the tragedy of Andrew. Here we discuss why only outsiders will solve these problems.
Be sure and watch my previous interview with Azra Raza at www.evo2.org/azra - it’s a barn burner and provides important background that gives rich context to this new discussion.5 Amazing Things about Cancer, Viruses and EvolutionEvolution 2.02020-10-22 | Perry Marshall was invited to Notre Dame Business School to present at a masters level class on new trends in medicine and biology. This talk canvases a spectrum of issues from COVID- 19, virus evolution and the dark underbelly of cancer research.
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Where Did Life And The Genetic Code Come From? Can The Answer Build Superior AI? The #1 Mystery In Science Now Has A $10 Million Prize. Learn More About It, Here – herox.com/evolution2.0Ways To Win The Evolution 2.0 PrizeEvolution 2.02020-10-08 | Perry Marshall discusses avenues of research that may uncover the mystery of what makes life alive.
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Where Did Life And The Genetic Code Come From? Can The Answer Build Superior AI? The #1 Mystery In Science Now Has A $10 Million Prize. Learn More About It, Here – herox.com/evolution2.0COVID Accelerates the Uberization of FoodEvolution 2.02020-07-09 | In 2019, I interviewed Joel Salatin, advocate of alternate farming.
Our conversation prompted me to predict for the decade 2020 - 2029 that laws would be overturned making local food production and distribution a rising economic force.
I didn't know then that COVID was about to speed that process up 10X.
Here's what's happened since then.Picasso Tadpoles: Michael Levin on the Dark Matter of BiologyEvolution 2.02020-04-12 | Dr. Michael Levin of Tufts University crosses many disciplines: computer science, embryo development, cancer and tumor research; limb regeneration; evolutionary theory and neural networks.
If you watch Michael's fascinating talk at tinyurl.com/drmichaellevin he'll take you down his magical rabbit hole including worms that grow new heads when you cut them in half, tumors that heal themselves and eyes planted on tails that actually work.
In this interview, Michael explodes the myth that "we've got it mostly figured out."
The truth is closer to 1% understanding and 99% is Dark Matter.
Discover Michael's research at https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/michael-levin/ and http://www.drmichaellevin.org.