What if a simple blood test could detect cancer? | Hani Goodarzi

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Catching cancer at its earliest stages saves lives. But in a body made up of trillions of cells, how do you spot a small group of rogue cancer cells? Biomedical researcher Hani Goodarzi discusses his lab's discovery of a new class of RNAs that, when paired with emerging AI tools, could help detect cancer earlier, more precisely and even through routine blood work — potentially transforming our understanding of the disease.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	It's Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:12.0	Today, an important understanding of RNA
0:14.5	that could unlock a way to treat
0:16.1	and more deeply understand cancer.
0:18.6	Biomedical researcher, Hani Guodarzi,
0:21.0	introduces us to something called onk RNAs,
0:24.1	which combined with advancements in machine learning
0:26.8	are helping decode cancer.
0:29.4	His talk from the 2023 Ted Immigrant diaspora Iranian event coming up.
0:37.8	Catching cancer at its earliest stages and its most treatable can save countless lives.
0:44.0	But the million dollar question is,
0:46.0	in an otherwise healthy body made above trillions of cells,
0:50.0	how can we zero in on a small group of rogue cancer cells?
0:54.0	The answer, I think, may be rooted in something that thanks to the pandemic,
0:58.0	we have all come to know quite well, and that is RNA.
1:02.0	I think these days everyone has a basic understanding of how
1:04.7	RNA works. Again, thanks to the COVID vaccines. But basically, RNA is
1:10.0	transcribed from DNA in the cell and messenger RNA specifically serves as a template
1:15.2	for protein synthesis.
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