Curing Cancer, with 2018 Nobel Laureate Jim Allison

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🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on cancer research with freshly-minted 2018 Nobel laureate and immunologist Dr. Jim Allison, who’s at the frontier of finding new cancer immunotherapy treatments. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/curing-cancer-with-2018-nobel-laureate-jim-allison/ Photo Credit: BruceBlaus [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:24.0	You're a personal astrophysicist and I've got with me, Koho, Chuck Nice.
0:28.0	Hey, Neil. Always good to have you, Chuck.
0:30.0	Always good to be here. Oh, and tweeting at Chuck Nice Comic.
0:32.0	Thank you, sir. Yes, I am.
0:34.0	All right. He never says my Twitter handle.
0:36.0	I got to say his Twitter. He never says, that's fine.
0:38.0	Fine.
0:40.0	I'm just saying, I don't think you have to say it when the person has like 100 million people on Twitter.
0:46.0	You know, we have 12 million Twitter followers then, you know, it's 13 million.
0:50.0	No worries. This is a special edition. I think of it as a special edition of Cosmic Queries.
0:56.0	It's a special edition because we have with us someone who is not only the world's expert on this topic.
1:02.0	He might be the greatest expert in the universe on this topic.
1:06.0	And it's the topic of curing cancer. Wow. Yes. Yes. It's a big topic.
1:11.0	It's a big topic on everyone's mind and our special guest to help answer these questions on curing cancer.
1:17.0	Because obviously I have no such expertise is immunologist, Dr. Jim Allison. Jim, welcome to Star Talk.
1:24.0	Thank you very much. Yeah. So you come, you're Skyping into us from where?
1:29.0	From my office at the Cancer Center in Houston.
1:32.0	The Cancer Center in Houston. Huge medical complex there. If I, if I remember, serves.
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