Luke O'Neill
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4,575 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We see it in the immune system.
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And what happens there is your body will make cells that will attack your own tissues.
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And these are dangerous.
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They're called autoimmune cells.
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And guess what?
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They die by apoptosis in a controlled way and don't harm your body.
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So it's the ordered destruction of the autoreactive cells in the immune system.
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And again, that's a new really good example.
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And when that goes wrong, and these cells don't die,
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They make the autoantibodies, they attack your own tissue and cause autoimmune diseases.
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So if we could just trigger this process in these cells, that could be a way to treat autoimmune disease, another very important clinical aspect.
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And cancer people, they notice that cancer cells don't undergo this cell death and they persist.
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So you can see now a huge amount of work in this to see if we can understand it more and more and maybe develop new therapies to help either boost it or stay.
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Stop it happening in different contexts as well.
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So it's very interesting.
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And here's a fact for you: 70 billion cells in your body die every day of apoptosis, of programmed cell doesn't that remarkable.
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And it can be in your gut.
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Now that's another good example, actually.
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So cells in your gut, they're dying off all the time because they get worn out.
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They die by this process.
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