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Hacking bacteria to fight cancer | Tal Danino

Hacking bacteria to fight cancer | Tal Danino

FromTED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing


Hacking bacteria to fight cancer | Tal Danino

FromTED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing

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Length:
5 minutes
Released:
Dec 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 1884, an unlucky patient who had a rapidly growing cancer in his neck came down with an unrelated bacterial skin infection. As he recovered from the infection, the cancer surprisingly began to recede. The infection had stimulated the patient's immune system. Today, synthetic biologists program bacteria to safely deliver drugs directly to tumors. How is this possible? Tal Danino investigates. [Directed by Chris Bishop, narrated by Addison Anderson].
Released:
Dec 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (97)

TED-Ed's commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED's mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed's growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed website (ed.ted.com).