Immune
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Scientists have been able to leverage the
immune
system in the fight against cancer.
For example, there have been ways where we find the off switches of cancer, and new drugs have been able to turn the
immune
system back on, to be able to fight cancer.
In addition, there are ways where you can take away
immune
cells from the body, train them, engineer them and put them back into the body to fight cancer.
In many species, if anything, testosterone suppresses the
immune
system.
Only especially fit men can afford the price that testosterone levies on their
immune
system.
Building in-person interaction into our cities, into our workplaces, into our agendas bolsters the
immune
system, sends feel-good hormones surging through the bloodstream and brain and helps us live longer.
You can somehow be
immune
to all of the difficulties and ill health and losses that humanity has been subject to since the beginning of time.
Well, what we've learned is that it has to do with your
immune
system.
So let me tell you a little bit about the importance of your
immune
system in cancer.
You know, people are starting to become familiar with the term "cancer
immune
therapy."
And so in this picture, those little green balls are your
immune
cells, and that big pink cell is a cancer cell.
And these
immune
cells go around and taste all the cells in your body.
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.
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.
They activate the
immune
system so that the
immune
system can be more vigorous in protecting us from cancer.
In fact, it's so remarkable that provocative statements like this one: "Cancer is having a penicillin moment," people are saying, with these new
immune
therapy drugs.
When an
immune
cell snuggles up against a cancer cell to take a taste, it's looking for signs of disease, and if it finds those signs, the cell gets activated and it launches a missile strike and kills the cell.
And there's a protein on
immune
cells that grabs the sialic acid, and if that protein gets held at that synapse between the
immune
cell and the cancer cell, it puts that
immune
cell to sleep.
The sialic acids are telling the
immune
cell, "Hey, this cell's all right.
Well, your
immune
system might be able to see that cancer cell for what it really is: something that needs to be destroyed.
And that's important, because our
immune
system needs to leave the good cells alone.
And now that we understand how those sugars mesmerize the
immune
system, we can come up with new medicines to wake up those
immune
cells, tell them, "Ignore the sugars, eat the cell and have a delicious snack, on cancer."
So every time a cell divides, all of its DNA has to be copied, all of the coding DNA inside of those chromosomes, because that carries the vital operating instructions that keep our cells in good working order, so my heart cells can keep a steady beat, which I assure you they're not doing right now, and my
immune
cells can fight off bacteria and viruses, and our brain cells can save the memory of our first kiss and keep on learning throughout life.
My
immune
system changed dramatically over 24 hours there.
But what I didn't realize is that my trolls were inoculating me, thickening my skin, making me
immune
to viewpoints that I didn't necessarily agree with, and so I didn't react to the same things as I would have several months prior.
And while I'm sure many of you enjoy that suntan that you get from the remaining 10 percent, it causes a lot of problems: cataracts, damage to crops, damage to
immune
systems and also skin cancer.
Surprisingly, CRISPR is actually a natural process that’s long functioned as a bacterial
immune
system.
With the right tools, this viral
immune
system becomes a precise gene-editing tool, which can alter DNA and change specific genes almost as easily as fixing a typo.
Like the viral RNA in the CRISPR
immune
system, the guide RNA directs Cas9 to the target gene, and the protein’s molecular scissors snip the DNA.
Anger affects our
immune
systems, our cardiovascular systems.
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