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Math can help uncover cancer's secrets

Irina Kareva · TED

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About

Irina Kareva translates biology into mathematics and vice versa. She writes mathematical models that describe the dynamics of cancer, with the goal of developing new drugs that target tumors. "The power and beauty of mathematical modeling lies in the fact that it makes you formalize, in a very rigorous way, what we think we know," Kareva says. "It can help guide us to where we should keep looking, and where there may be a dead end." It all comes down to asking the right question and translating it to the right equation, and back.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Speaker
Irina Kareva
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Biology, Medicine and health
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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