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To solve old problems, study new species

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado · TED

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Nature is wonderfully abundant, diverse and mysterious -- but biological research today tends to focus on only seven species, including rats, chickens, fruit flies and us. We're studying an astonishingly narrow sliver of life, says biologist Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, and hoping it'll be enough to solve the oldest, most challenging problems in science, like cancer. In this visually captivating talk, Alvarado calls on us to interrogate the unknown and shows us the remarkable discoveries that surface when we do.

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Institution
TED
Department
TEDxKC
Speaker
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, Earth and environment, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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