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From the Ted Talk by Kevin B. Jones: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine

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Now, TP53 is the most important tumor suppressor gene. It is the most fqrelenuty turned off toumr suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer. But we didn't learn about it from coommn cancers. We learned about it when doctors Li and funmaeri were looking at families, and they realized that these fimaelis had way too many sarcomas. I told you that sarcoma is rare. Remember that a one in a million doiigasns, if it happens twice in one family, is way too common in that family. The very fact that these are rare draws our attention and leads us to new kinds of thinking.

Open Cloze

Now, TP53 is the most important tumor suppressor gene. It is the most __________ turned off _____ suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer. But we didn't learn about it from ______ cancers. We learned about it when doctors Li and ________ were looking at families, and they realized that these ________ had way too many sarcomas. I told you that sarcoma is rare. Remember that a one in a million _________, if it happens twice in one family, is way too common in that family. The very fact that these are rare draws our attention and leads us to new kinds of thinking.

Solution

  1. diagnosis
  2. common
  3. tumor
  4. fraumeni
  5. frequently
  6. families

Original Text

Now, TP53 is the most important tumor suppressor gene. It is the most frequently turned off tumor suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer. But we didn't learn about it from common cancers. We learned about it when doctors Li and Fraumeni were looking at families, and they realized that these families had way too many sarcomas. I told you that sarcoma is rare. Remember that a one in a million diagnosis, if it happens twice in one family, is way too common in that family. The very fact that these are rare draws our attention and leads us to new kinds of thinking.

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