First Pulse : A Personal Journey in Cancer Research

First Pulse Projects in cooperation with Garnett McKeen Laboratory announces its first publication, First Pulse : A Personal Journey in Cancer Research, written by Merrill Garnett, edited by Bill Jones, with paintings by Joy Garnett. It includes 104 illustrated pages, a foreword by Professor Paul Bingham, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and an appendix summarizing laboratory studies carried out with the support of the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund. For nearly forty years Dr. Merrill Garnett has pursued the goal of safe and effective treatment of cancer. According to his model, cancer results from the failure of cells to mature.This in turn is caused by a problem of energetics in the cell's metabolic processes. He has developed a chemical compound, palladium lipoic acid, that mimics an energy pathway present in normal cells, missing in cancer cells, and necessary to normal growth and health. This is the unusual story of his single-minded search. It describes Dr. Garnett's work and theory in a way that is stimulating and accessible to the scientist and non-scientist alike.