Videos 1 - 10 for Cancer
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54:47 -3 years agoDuring the human lifetime, there are 10 million billion cell divisions and each division represents, as Robert Weinberg puts it, �an opportunity for disaster, for chaos to ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
59:57 -3 years agoEric Lander likens the current age of biological discovery to the days of great ocean-going exploration. After the world was mapped, no one could imagine what it was like to ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
59:42 -6 years agoIf you're worried about getting cancer, do yourself a favor: steer clear of red meat and rich foods, and avoid cigarettes. In this lecture, Robert Weinberg provides the ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
58:17 -3 years agoThrough her rapport with the zebrafish, Nancy Hopkins has made large contributions to the fields of developmental biology and cancer research. But her model organism, and to ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
1:07:40 -2 years agoCancer is a conniving enemy. Try to kill it off through surgery or chemotherapy, and it finds a way to sneak back in. Jacqueline Lees tells an engaged Soap Box audience what ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
1:05:12 -3 years agoJacqueline Lees holds the lowly mouse in high regard. It is �beautifully developed� as a model system for cancer. Lees says that while researchers can learn much from cells in ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
1:00:37 -3 years agoWith his 500-plus patents, Robert Langer, Jr. surely has dibs on the title of MIT's Mr. Wizard. This talk, which concludes the series on cancer research, deals with Langer's ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
55:50 -3 years agoWe all start out as a single fertilized cell, and wind up, as fully formed humans, with 10 to the 13th cells. �The name of the game,� says Angelika Amon, is to replicate the ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
3 years agoEarly on in his lecture, Michael Yaffe serves up an amazing fact: If the distance between each DNA base pair were one foot apart, then each time a cell divided, it would have ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
59:46 -3 years agoJianzhu Chen lays out the thorny challenges of harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. He starts with the basics: how the body employs two levels of defense against ... mitworld.mit.edu more open pop
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