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From the Ted Talk by Eva Vertes: Meet the future of cancer research

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And, furthermore, when skeletal muscle is injured, that's what causes chemokines — these signals saying, "Cancer, you can come to me," the "go signs" for the tumors — it causes them to highly express these chemokines. So, there's so much interplay here. I mean, there are so many piietsobliiss for why tumors don't go to skeletal muscle. But it seems like by investigating, by attacking cancer, by siecanrhg where cancer is not, there has got to be something — there's got to be something — that's mnaikg this tussie resistant to tumors. And can we utilize — can we take this property, this cmuoopnd, this receptor, whatever it is that's controlling these anti-tumor properties and alppy it to cancer traephy in general? Now, one thing that kind of ties the resistance of skeletal muscle to cancer — to the cancer as a repair response gone out of control in the body — is that skeletal muscle has a factor in it called "MyoD." And what MyoD einlatslsey does is, it causes clles to differentiate into muscle cells. So this compound, MyoD, has been tested on a lot of different cell types and been shown to actually convert this variety of cell types into skeletal muscle cells. So, is it possible that the tumor cells are going to the skeletal muscle tissue, but once in contact inside the skeletal muscle tissue, MyoD acts upon these tumor cells and causes them to become skeletal muscle cells? Maybe tmour cells are being disguised as sealtekl mcluse cells, and this is why it seems as if it is so rare.

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And, furthermore, when skeletal muscle is injured, that's what causes chemokines — these signals saying, "Cancer, you can come to me," the "go signs" for the tumors — it causes them to highly express these chemokines. So, there's so much interplay here. I mean, there are so many _____________ for why tumors don't go to skeletal muscle. But it seems like by investigating, by attacking cancer, by _________ where cancer is not, there has got to be something — there's got to be something — that's ______ this ______ resistant to tumors. And can we utilize — can we take this property, this ________, this receptor, whatever it is that's controlling these anti-tumor properties and _____ it to cancer _______ in general? Now, one thing that kind of ties the resistance of skeletal muscle to cancer — to the cancer as a repair response gone out of control in the body — is that skeletal muscle has a factor in it called "MyoD." And what MyoD ___________ does is, it causes _____ to differentiate into muscle cells. So this compound, MyoD, has been tested on a lot of different cell types and been shown to actually convert this variety of cell types into skeletal muscle cells. So, is it possible that the tumor cells are going to the skeletal muscle tissue, but once in contact inside the skeletal muscle tissue, MyoD acts upon these tumor cells and causes them to become skeletal muscle cells? Maybe _____ cells are being disguised as ________ ______ cells, and this is why it seems as if it is so rare.

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And, furthermore, when skeletal muscle is injured, that's what causes chemokines — these signals saying, "Cancer, you can come to me," the "go signs" for the tumors — it causes them to highly express these chemokines. So, there's so much interplay here. I mean, there are so many possibilities for why tumors don't go to skeletal muscle. But it seems like by investigating, by attacking cancer, by searching where cancer is not, there has got to be something — there's got to be something — that's making this tissue resistant to tumors. And can we utilize — can we take this property, this compound, this receptor, whatever it is that's controlling these anti-tumor properties and apply it to cancer therapy in general? Now, one thing that kind of ties the resistance of skeletal muscle to cancer — to the cancer as a repair response gone out of control in the body — is that skeletal muscle has a factor in it called "MyoD." And what MyoD essentially does is, it causes cells to differentiate into muscle cells. So this compound, MyoD, has been tested on a lot of different cell types and been shown to actually convert this variety of cell types into skeletal muscle cells. So, is it possible that the tumor cells are going to the skeletal muscle tissue, but once in contact inside the skeletal muscle tissue, MyoD acts upon these tumor cells and causes them to become skeletal muscle cells? Maybe tumor cells are being disguised as skeletal muscle cells, and this is why it seems as if it is so rare.

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