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The Warburg Effect

The Breathless Cell: Otto Warburg’s War on Cancer Inside Nazi Germany

Otto Warburg believed cancer was not written in genes, but in how a cell handles energy—how it breathes, or fails to. He lived, worked, and survived inside Nazi Germany, leaving behind extraordinary science and an enduring silence that still unsettles.

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