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Mina Bissell - A New Understanding Of Cancer
Ted Talk... For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea -- that a cancer cell doesn't automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells (its microenvironment) for cues on how to develop. She shares the two key experiments that proved the prevailing wisdom about cancer growth was wrong. Mina Bissell studies how cancer interacts with our bodies, searching for clues to how cancer's microenvironment influences its growth.