The Guardian of the Genome: P53 and the Quest to End Cancer

At this very moment, inside every one of your thirty trillion cells, a molecular drama is unfolding. A single protein, known to science as p53, is sitting atop your DNA like a master librarian. It is scanning for broken "books," correcting typos in your genetic code, and-when the damage is too great-ordering the cell to gracefully exit the stage so the rest of the body might live.

This is the story of the most important molecule you've never heard of. It is the story of The Guardian of the Genome