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From the Ted Talk by Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer

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So, let me qulicky try and tell you why I thought that and how I went about it. So, to begin with, however, I have to give you a very, very quick lesson in developmental biology, with apologies to those of you who know some biology. So, when your mom and dad met, there is a fertilized egg, that round thing with that little blip. It grows and then it grwos, and then it makes this hsdmoane man.

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So, this guy, with all the cells in his body, all have the same genetic information. So how did his nose become his nose, his elbow his eoblw, and why doesn't he get up one morning and have his nose turn into his foot? It could. It has the genetic ioimroaftnn. You all remember, dolly, it came from a single mammary cell. So, why doesn't it do it? So, have a guess of how many cells he has in his body. Somewhere between 10 trillion to 70 trillion clels in his body. Trillion! Now, how did these cells, all with the same geietnc material, make all those tisuses? And so, the question I raised before becomes even more interesting if you thhguot about the enormity of this in every one of your bodies.

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So, let me _______ try and tell you why I thought that and how I went about it. So, to begin with, however, I have to give you a very, very quick lesson in developmental biology, with apologies to those of you who know some biology. So, when your mom and dad met, there is a fertilized egg, that round thing with that little blip. It grows and then it _____, and then it makes this ________ man.

(Applause)

So, this guy, with all the cells in his body, all have the same genetic information. So how did his nose become his nose, his elbow his _____, and why doesn't he get up one morning and have his nose turn into his foot? It could. It has the genetic ___________. You all remember, dolly, it came from a single mammary cell. So, why doesn't it do it? So, have a guess of how many cells he has in his body. Somewhere between 10 trillion to 70 trillion _____ in his body. Trillion! Now, how did these cells, all with the same _______ material, make all those _______? And so, the question I raised before becomes even more interesting if you _______ about the enormity of this in every one of your bodies.

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  5. handsome
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  8. elbow
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So, let me quickly try and tell you why I thought that and how I went about it. So, to begin with, however, I have to give you a very, very quick lesson in developmental biology, with apologies to those of you who know some biology. So, when your mom and dad met, there is a fertilized egg, that round thing with that little blip. It grows and then it grows, and then it makes this handsome man.

(Applause)

So, this guy, with all the cells in his body, all have the same genetic information. So how did his nose become his nose, his elbow his elbow, and why doesn't he get up one morning and have his nose turn into his foot? It could. It has the genetic information. You all remember, dolly, it came from a single mammary cell. So, why doesn't it do it? So, have a guess of how many cells he has in his body. Somewhere between 10 trillion to 70 trillion cells in his body. Trillion! Now, how did these cells, all with the same genetic material, make all those tissues? And so, the question I raised before becomes even more interesting if you thought about the enormity of this in every one of your bodies.

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