The memory of the cells (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188207649)

Laia has learned to live the way she works in the laboratory: with precision, detachment, and an almost fierce obsession with control. Ever since childhood, her mother's death has left her with an impossible promise: to understand cancer, to find a weakness in it, and to turn pain into science.

Years later, that promise begins to take shape around Opo, a protein capable of opening up a new path in the treatment of certain tumors. But when the research leaves the laboratory and enters the world of investors, pharmaceutical companies, clinical data, and human ambition, Laia discovers that scientific truth can be as fragile as any relationship.

Set between Barcelona, Cadaqués, and the United States, The Memory of Cells is the story of a brilliant yet wounded woman who must learn that not everything can be controlled, that love can contaminate too, and that sometimes protecting life means letting go of the most comfortable version of oneself.