Roxanne Khamsi
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252 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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Now, with vaccines, we're essentially doing the same thing.
We're trying to nudge the mutational patterns in the immune system in order to come up with an antibody, but to do so quicker, to give it a shortcut.
So yeah, like a lot of people that are
skeptical of vaccines or anti-vaccines will say, you know, these mutate your DNA.
And I say, yes, it does.
It's like somebody saying, you know, you're wearing an ugly dress.
And I'm like, yes, I am wearing an ugly dress.
And I did so on purpose.
I like this pattern.
But yeah, so we use vaccines in order to evolve our immune cells to make better antibodies.
Yeah, you could say our understanding has evolved, right?
So we used to think about cancer as the result of one or two genetic errors.
And that was kind of the pervasive thinking for decades.
What recently has been shown is that cancers are just rife with mutations.
There can be in certain types of cancers, like colorectal cancers, for example, there's some theories that there's like a big bang of mutations that happens early on that just seeds a huge amount of diversity there.
So instead of thinking of a tumor as something that was the result of one or two genetic errors, we now think of tumors and malignancies as hotbeds of mutation.
And the challenge then is to think about which of those mutations are driving the cancer and making it most resistant to treatment.
So, yeah, I want people to understand that we need a revolution in our understanding of mutation.
And part of that is I want to destigmatize the concept of mutation.
It's not always a bad thing.
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