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About the author and the blog

Before getting started, I would like to introduce myself and some aspects of how this blog will be managed. My name is Fernando de Miguel . I was born in the United States but I was raised in Pamplona, Spain. I studied a 5-years degree in Biochemistry  at the University of Navarra and later a master's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology in Madrid, Spain. After achieving my master's degree, I came back to Pamplona where I coursed my Ph.D. thesis about the molecular biology of lung cancer  in the Center for Applied Medical Research. I currently continue studying lung cancer as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in New Haven, CT. A few months ago, hanging around Facebook I found a post from an ex-classmate who mentioned an article about an alleged "anti-cancer" diet . A quite intense started around the topic of the article in which there were all kinds of comments from different people, from researchers of the field that were raising their hands to the...