PEAPACK-GLADSTONE - In a quest for more efficiency, the Borough Council has taken steps to end virtual public comments at its meetings, consolidate advisory committees, and meet less often.
This essay is part of a series on cultural, scientific and esoteric matters.
Jim Allison is an iconoclastic scientist who toiled in obscurity for years. Then he helped crack a mystery that may save millions of lives: Why doesn’t the immune system attack cancer?
Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
This material was first published by WIRED magazine on 10.22.2018
ADAPTED FROM THE book The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer,
JAMES ALLISON LOOKS like a cross between Jerry Garcia and Ben Franklin, and he’s a bit of both, an iconoclastic scientist and musician known for good times and great achievements. He also doesn’t always answer his phone, especially when the call arrives at 5 am, from an unfamiliar number.