The Science of Cancer

New breakthroughs in technology allow cancer cells to be killed in milliseconds. Using genetics, doctors can attack cancers and their causes in ever more targeted ways. Nanoparticles stream through the blood directly to cancer cells, tiny machines behaving with laser-like precision. In STEM Body: The Science of Cancer, readers will learn the story of three technologies that are advancing the global fight against cancer. With this incisive look at the life-changing possibilities of STEM research, students will learn the science behind these breakthroughs and feel inspired to join the fight.

At just 32 pages, Full Tilt Fast Reads help striving middle school readers build reading stamina and stay engaged with high-interest low-level content and dynamic topics.

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Leah Kaminsky is a physician and an award-winning writer. She combines a career treating patients in a busy general practice clinic, with writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She's been doing it for over three decades – all the while raising three children. Her debut novel The Waiting Room won the Voss Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Helen Asher Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.