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In 1928, when Alexander Fleming returned home from holiday, he found his lab in a state of disarray. Tools crowded his desk. Petri dishes were stacked on top of one another. Fleming was not the most organized researcher, and this would prove to be lifesaving. He noticed that mold had colonized his bacterial culture and killed it. He had just discovered penicillin. In response to the finding, Fleming simply remarked: “That’s funny.”
Dr. Carl June, the oncologist whose quest to cure cancer fuels Ross Kauffman’s fascinating Tribeca documentary Of Medicine and Miracles, shares Fleming’s amusingly casual wonder at happenstance. When June retells the story of Fleming’s discovery, he sees it as a lesson: “Chance favors the prepared,” he said. “If you do enough experiments, you’ll find things in the unexpected.” About his efforts to reprogram T-cells to fight cancerous masses,...
In 1928, when Alexander Fleming returned home from holiday, he found his lab in a state of disarray. Tools crowded his desk. Petri dishes were stacked on top of one another. Fleming was not the most organized researcher, and this would prove to be lifesaving. He noticed that mold had colonized his bacterial culture and killed it. He had just discovered penicillin. In response to the finding, Fleming simply remarked: “That’s funny.”
Dr. Carl June, the oncologist whose quest to cure cancer fuels Ross Kauffman’s fascinating Tribeca documentary Of Medicine and Miracles, shares Fleming’s amusingly casual wonder at happenstance. When June retells the story of Fleming’s discovery, he sees it as a lesson: “Chance favors the prepared,” he said. “If you do enough experiments, you’ll find things in the unexpected.” About his efforts to reprogram T-cells to fight cancerous masses,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Of Medicine and Miracles” could have been a podcast. It could have been a newspaper feature. It could have been a book, even. It didn’t need to be a documentary. Saying so brings me no pleasure; dumping Ross Kauffman’s latest into the same bucket as countless modern docs that don’t justify themselves as cinema feels brutish, given the subject matter. The story of how the immunologist Carl June figured out how to train T cells to fight cancer, and how his research ultimately saved young Emily Whitehead, sentenced with a mortal leukemia diagnosis at six years old, is remarkable and moving, and worth attending even a decade after her miraculous full remission.
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- 6/17/2022
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
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