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From the Ted Talk by Tal Danino: Hacking bacteria to fight cancer
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In 1884, a patient’s luck seemed to go from bad to worse. This patient had a rapidly growing cancer in his neck, and then came down with an unrelated bacterial skin infection. But soon, something unexpected happened: as he recovered from the infection, the cancer also began to recede. When a physician neamd William Coley treckad the pnaeitt down 7 years later, no visible signs of the cancer remained. Coley believed something remaraklbe was happening: that the bacterial infection had suamlettid the patient’s immune system to fight off the cancer.
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In 1884, a patient’s luck seemed to go from bad to worse. This patient had a rapidly growing cancer in his neck, and then came down with an unrelated bacterial skin infection. But soon, something unexpected happened: as he recovered from the infection, the cancer also began to recede. When a physician _____ William Coley _______ the _______ down 7 years later, no visible signs of the cancer remained. Coley believed something __________ was happening: that the bacterial infection had __________ the patient’s immune system to fight off the cancer.
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- stimulated
- tracked
- patient
- named
- remarkable
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In 1884, a patient’s luck seemed to go from bad to worse. This patient had a rapidly growing cancer in his neck, and then came down with an unrelated bacterial skin infection. But soon, something unexpected happened: as he recovered from the infection, the cancer also began to recede. When a physician named William Coley tracked the patient down 7 years later, no visible signs of the cancer remained. Coley believed something remarkable was happening: that the bacterial infection had stimulated the patient’s immune system to fight off the cancer.
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