Dr.Deepthy Nair is an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry. Dr Nair was awarded the
Enid A Neidle scholarship 2020 by the American Dental Education Association. This scholarship offers a unique opportunity for a dental educator to concentrate on issues affecting women faculty. Dr Nair is also the faculty advisor for the UDM Student Chapter of Amercian Association of Women Dentists.
Cancer. The word itself strikes fear, bringing to mind a disease that feels like a betrayal from within. As the world's number-two killer, its a subject of immense research, with over a million papers published in the last fifty years alone. But what if our understanding of cancer is fundamentally flawed? What if this seemingly modern disease is not a chaotic accident of our genes, but a ghost of our evolutionary past, an ancient survival mechanism gone rogue? This perspective, while perhaps surprising, is gaining traction among scientists. It suggests that cancer is not a new invention of damaged cells, but a reversion to an older, more primitive way of life. To truly grasp this idea, we must embark on a journey back in time, over a billion years, to the very dawn of multicellular life. The Great Evolutionary Leap: From Individualism to Community For a staggering two billion years, life on Earth consisted solely of single-celled organisms. Their imperative was simple and si...

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