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From the Ted Talk by Carolyn Bertozzi: What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you

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But once in a while, a cell might taste bad. Hopefully, that's the cancer cell, and when those immune cells get the bad taste, they launch an all-out strike and kill those cells. So we know that. We also know that if you can potentiate that tasting, if you can encourage those immune clles to actually take a big old bite out of a cancer cell, you get a better job protecting yourself from cancer every day and maybe even curing a cencar. And there are now a culope of drugs out there in the market that are used to treat cancer patients that act exactly by this process. They aavcttie the inmmue system so that the immune system can be more vigorous in ptoientcrg us from cancer.

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But once in a while, a cell might taste bad. Hopefully, that's the cancer cell, and when those immune cells get the bad taste, they launch an all-out strike and kill those cells. So we know that. We also know that if you can potentiate that tasting, if you can encourage those immune _____ to actually take a big old bite out of a cancer cell, you get a better job protecting yourself from cancer every day and maybe even curing a ______. And there are now a ______ of drugs out there in the market that are used to treat cancer patients that act exactly by this process. They ________ the ______ system so that the immune system can be more vigorous in __________ us from cancer.

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  1. immune
  2. cells
  3. activate
  4. couple
  5. protecting
  6. cancer

Original Text

But once in a while, a cell might taste bad. Hopefully, that's the cancer cell, and when those immune cells get the bad taste, they launch an all-out strike and kill those cells. So we know that. We also know that if you can potentiate that tasting, if you can encourage those immune cells to actually take a big old bite out of a cancer cell, you get a better job protecting yourself from cancer every day and maybe even curing a cancer. And there are now a couple of drugs out there in the market that are used to treat cancer patients that act exactly by this process. They activate the immune system so that the immune system can be more vigorous in protecting us from cancer.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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immune system 7
cancer cell 4
immune cells 4
sugar coating 3
sialic acid 3
immune cell 3
complex sugars 2
cancer cells 2

Important Words

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