Acs Research - Theorylab

“Mitosis is not only important from a fundamental point of view to try to understand how the body can develop all the cells that it has and heal its wounds and so forth, but also it represents an entrée into a process that you can attack as a physician trying to block the processes that are fundamental to cancer…I’ve now spent 50 years on mitosis, and I’ve never been bored.” In a career that has spanned decades, with seminal accomplishments that earned him an American Cancer Society Research Professorship, Richard McIntosh, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has profoundly impacted our understanding of mitosis. And now he has written an undergraduate textbook for non-science majors, Understanding Cancer; an Introduction to the Biology, Medicine and Societal Implications of this Disease. In this conversation he talks about the importance of mitosis, his motivation for writing this new book for students who aren’t necessarily scientists, and his son’s battle with