Avoiding, Treating & Curing Cancer With the Immune System | Dr. Alex Marson

We're living in this amazing moment in biology where we can put a gene that encodes something on the surface of T cells that will make them programmed to search and destroy for cancer cells. Now, this is largely known as car T cells, chimeric antigen receptor. This is a receptor that was designed in a lab, does not exist in nature. When those T cells get reinfused into a patient the way that you get like a blood transfusion, those cars are directed to go against cancers. Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.

I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Dr. Alex Marson. Dr. Alex Marson is a medical doctor and scientist at the University of California, San Francisco.

He is developing new ways to reprogram the immune system to cure cancers. Today we discuss how your immune system works, how autoimmunity works, and how gene editing and other new technologies can be successfully leveraged to defeat childhood and adult cancers. Dr. Marson is truly one of a kind in his understanding of the clinical aspects of cancer treatment, the science of the immune system, and, as you'll soon hear, in explaining the things that genuinely increase your cancer risk, many of which are surprising, and the actionable steps that we can all take to reduce our probability. of getting cancer.

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