Does Stress Speed Up Evolution?

Skepticism hasn’t kept Rosenberg and Austin from seeking medical applications of their findings. 1 application is cancer. His experiments suggest that putting too much stress on cancer cells by hitting them with high doses of cancer drugs could accelerate their evolution to develop drug resistance. “We give the patients as much as they can tolerate, guaranteeing the emergence of resistant cancer cells”, adding that the current aggressive approach to cancer treatment has largely failed.

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