TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Hacking bacteria to fight cancer | Tal Danino
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...
SciShow
Why Is Heart Cancer So Rare?
Why don't we hear about people getting heart cancer? Turns out that some types of cells are less susceptible to cancer than others.
TED Talks
TED: How cancer cells communicate -- and how we can slow them down | Hasini Jayatilaka
When cancer cells are closely packed together in a tumor, they're able to communicate with each other and coordinate their movement throughout the body. What if we could interrupt this process? In this accessible talk about cutting-edge...
TED Talks
TED: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer | Laura Indolfi
Anyone who has lost a loved one to pancreatic cancer knows the devastating speed with which it can affect an otherwise healthy person. TED Fellow and biomedical entrepreneur Laura Indolfi is developing a revolutionary way to treat this...
TED Talks
TED: A new superweapon in the fight against cancer | Paula Hammond
Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With her colleagues at MIT, Hammond engineered a nanoparticle one-hundredth the size...
TED Talks
Jack Andraka: A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager
Over 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than two percent chance of survival. How could this be? Jack Andraka talks about how he developed a promising early detection test for pancreatic cancer...
SciShow
Jimmy Carters Cancer Cure
In August 2015, Jimmy Carter announced that he had a form of cancer that spread to his liver and brain. A few months later he reported the cancer was gone. How?
TED Talks
TED: Is there a link between cancer and heart disease? | Nicholas Leeper
Does the key to stopping cancer lie in the heart? Cardiologist Nicholas Leeper digs into emerging scientific research on the link between the world's two leading causes of death, heart disease and cancer, sharing how their biological...
Bozeman Science
What is Cancer?
In this video Paul Andersen answers the very simple question: What is cancer? He explains how damage to the DNA can create uncontrolled cell growth. He explains how malignant tumors can spread the disease throughout the body and gives...
SciShow
Mr. Frosty, the Cancer-fighting Gecko
Not only is this gecko adorned with beautiful coloration, but the same thing that makes it look so pretty could help us understand where some our cancers come from and how to stop them from progressing!
SciShow
How to Stop Cancer Using RNA
We know that our immune system watches out for us, but is there a way we could give it a leg up in spotting cancerous tumors?
SciShow
The Rarest Cancer in History (It's Also the Weirdest)
The medical industry has developed countless methods and tools for diagnosing the myriad of illnesses that can befall us. This, as you might guess, includes cancer. But it took a research team five months to diagnose this specific cancer...
TED Talks
Carl June: A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer
Carl June is the pioneer behind CAR T-cell therapy: a groundbreaking cancer treatment that supercharges part of a patient's own immune system to attack and kill tumors. In a talk about a breakthrough, he shares how three decades of...
TED Talks
Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer
For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea -- that a cancer cell doesn't automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells (its microenvironment) for cues on how to develop. She shares the two...
TED Talks
Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research
How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1. But instead of patenting it and reaping the profits (as many other labs have done) -- they published their findings and mailed...
TED Talks
Joy Wolfram: How nanoparticles could change the way we treat cancer
Ninety-nine percent of cancer drugs never make it to tumors, getting washed out of the body before they have time to do their job. How can we better deliver life-saving drugs? Cancer researcher Joy Wolfram shares cutting-edge medical...
SciShow
Breast Cancer gets Worse in the Spring and Fall. But...Why?
Seasonal illnesses from infectious diseases aren’t a new concept, but a few decades ago public health experts began to notice the same behavior in some non-infectious diseases like breast cancer. These patterns have helped us learn a lot...
SciShow
Why HPV Is Cancer In One Convenient Package
HPV isn't the only virus that causes cancer, but it's one of the best at it. Here's what we've learned about this supervillain of a pathogen, and how to stop it.
SciShow
This Simple Test Could Detect Half of All Cancers
Cancer is a complicated disease, and there's no simple blood test for early detection and screening to spot cancer in general. That might be changing thanks to LINE-1, a retrotransposon gene that doesn't do anything.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun
We've harnessed electricity, sequenced the human genome, and eradicated smallpox. But after billions of dollars in research, we haven't found a solution for a disease that affects more than 14 million people and their families at any...
SciShow
Antlers: The Secret to Deer's Cancer-Fighting Superpowers
Antler cells divide really fast, and with their super-fast growth, antlers resemble tumors in some ways. But animals in the deer family are less likely to get cancer than many other organisms, and a recent genetics study may have...
SciShow
Scientists May Have Found a Way to Treat All Cancers... By Accident | SciShow News
A universal cure for cancer would be a truly historic achievement in medicine, and it seems that scientists may have found it... by accident.
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