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What if a simple blood test could detect cancer? | Hani Goodarzi

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Catching cancer at its earliest stages saves lives. But in a body made up of trillions of cells, how do you spot a small group of rogue cancer cells? Biomedical researcher Hani Goodarzi discusses his lab's discovery of a new class of RNAs that, when paired with emerging AI tools, could help detect cancer earlier, more precisely and even through routine blood work — potentially transforming our understanding of the disease.

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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective. This is Ted Health and I'm Dr. Shoshana Unger. Let's go on a journey into the future of medicine.

0:25.0

In today's talk, biomedical researcher Dr. Hani Godarsi

0:29.0

unveil a groundbreaking approach to combat one of the field's most daunting challenges, the early detection

0:37.2

of cancer.

0:39.1

Dr. Guodarzi introduces us not just a scientific advancement, but to a potential paradigm shift in how we consider

0:47.1

cancer treatment. The key is to target the disease in its most vulnerable stages.

0:53.0

Join me in exploring how this breakthrough could make a profound difference in our lives,

0:59.0

bringing us closer to a world where more types of cancer can be caught

1:04.4

before they take hold. Hey everyone it's Adam Grant. I host a podcast called Rethinking about the science of what makes us tick.

1:24.3

This season we're talking about navigating young adulthood with clinical psychologist Meg Jay.

1:29.8

If I had to pick one word that I hear from 20-somethings more than any other word in terms of where

1:35.2

the struggles come from, it's uncertainty.

1:38.2

And so I think just the uncertainty involved in how do you make those big life decisions,

1:44.8

how do you take control of your life.

1:47.3

Find and follow rethinking with Adam Grant wherever you're listening.

2:00.6

Catching cancer at its earliest stages and its most treatable can save countless lives. But the million dollar question is in an otherwise healthy body made above trillions of cells,

2:06.0

how can we zero in on a small group of rogue cancer cells?

2:10.0

The answer, I think, may be rooted in something that thanks to the pandemic, we have all come to know quite well, and that is RNA.

2:18.0

I think these days everyone has a basic understanding of how RNA works, again, thanks to the COVID vaccines. But basically, RNA is

2:26.0

transcribed from DNA in the cell, and messenger RNA specifically serves as a template

2:31.2

for protein synthesis.

2:32.8

So usually the more RNA you have in the cell,

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