Are Your Cells Cooperating or Cheating?
Ask A Biologist Podcast
Chapters
1:42
What is a cooperation theorist?
2:54
The Maasai and their use of osotua.
3:09
Maasai herders
5:58
What osotua means.
8:54
Maasia's two systems, osotua and debt/credit.
9:59
Example of animals that do a type of osotua.
10:06
Vampire bat - classic reciprocity example.
12:06
Ant reciprocity.
12:12
Trophallaxis.
13:12
Going form studying animal cooperation to cellular cooperation?
15:12
Cellular cooperation.
17:08
Are you a disruptor in the study of cancer?
18:50
Three questions
18:59
When did you know you wanted to be a scientist?
20:57
What would you do if I took your science away?
22:32
What advice do you have for a future scientist?
24:55
What is the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting?
28:32
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Ask A Biologist Podcast
Are Your Cells Cooperating or Cheating?
Sep 28, 2018
Episode 93
Dr. Biology Talks with Athena Aktipis
Cooperation is something that humans and animals are known to do. It turns out that the 30 trillion cells in our body also need to cooperate. Like some humans, there are cells that are cheaters when it comes to cooperation. They do not do their share of the work and cause a lot of other problems. These are cancer cells. Cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis talks with Dr. Biology about her research and how it might help us learn more about cancer cells.
Learn more: Cooperation or Conflict?
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