The cancer gene we all have - Michael Windelspecht

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    Within every cell in our body, two copies of a tumor suppressor gene called BRCA1 are tasked with regulating the speed at which cells divide. Michael Windelspecht explains how these genes can sometimes mutate, making those cells less specialized and more likely to develop into cancer.
    Lesson by Michael Windelspecht, animation by Zedem Media.

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  • @ShawnRavenfire
    @ShawnRavenfire 9 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I read an article years ago that said that the first multicellular organism on earth were almost identical to cancer cells, and that modern cells turning into cancer may be caused by a gene going missing or inactive, causing them to revert to an earlier evolutionary state.

  • @한재욱-e6l
    @한재욱-e6l 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    WOW, actually I'm korean, and I saw this video through korean version. I think the translation of this is veryveryvery wonderful. Maybe translator is amazing person. I will give him a big hand.

  • @Junglist562
    @Junglist562 10 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    thank your lucky stars every morning waking up with no cancer.

    • @gloobstermcstinkwad3741
      @gloobstermcstinkwad3741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I woke up with cancer

    • @minicented
      @minicented 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gloobstermcstinkwad3741 damn, sorry to hear that

    • @Moasmoas1234
      @Moasmoas1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gloobstermcstinkwad3741 damn bro, i hope you get cured soon😔

  • @Euronius
    @Euronius 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Everybody who's ever checked their symptoms online, has feared one time or another that he might have cancer. I guess those medical sites were right. We all might have cancer.

  • @grigorshah
    @grigorshah 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Actually brca1 has much less effect in cell cycle control/reparation/cancer suppression than p53, cyclin dependent kinase genes such as CDK1-3, CDKL5 or p21 etc. But brca1 was selected as a sample to demonstrate how the system actually works...though the video is for general public and mentions not even 5% of the processes which take place in cells both on genetic and cellular levels.

    • @tomato-v8x
      @tomato-v8x 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      5% is pretty generous. I’d argue it’s not even 0.01%. And by the way - no such thing as a “genetic” level - that simply refers to on a molecular level, which includes nucleic acids and proteins.

  • @Smokey94462
    @Smokey94462 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I thought this was going to be more difficult to understand, it turned out to be pretty easy.

    • @infernalthing
      @infernalthing 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Dammit! I lost my sandwich again!

    • @TickedOffPriest
      @TickedOffPriest 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      infernalthing
      I will get it back for you.

    • @TickedOffPriest
      @TickedOffPriest 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is the idea.

    • @TickedOffPriest
      @TickedOffPriest 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'll take care of this personally.

  • @anniezhao9448
    @anniezhao9448 10 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    WAS I THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT MY SCREEN WAS DIRTY?

  • @PerOculos
    @PerOculos 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Such useful information.

  • @yomnamohamed8120
    @yomnamohamed8120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Both my mum and brother died from cancer

  • @theohendricks8634
    @theohendricks8634 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    wow! What a sweet video! Keep it up ted

  • @HamzaElMouaffek
    @HamzaElMouaffek 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I had an exam to day of biology molecular/Cytogenetic, and there was 2 question about that.
    Gatekeeprs (p53), and caretakers.

  • @thedogdarky
    @thedogdarky 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thanks TED-Ed, I really could use that info, and apparently I´m smarter than 3 minutes ago :D

  • @tehzarathustra
    @tehzarathustra 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    well, that was kind of depressing, yet reasonably informative
    thanks

  • @Lucuskane
    @Lucuskane 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a very complicated topic to cover in 3mins, BRAVO! ted-ed...conceptualize!

  • @MagicOfDark
    @MagicOfDark 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like to think of it like computer networking. The sum check is used for error detection when transferring data, there is a low chance of it not catching an error but there are a few cases where the error won't be caught and the file being transferred becomes corrupted like it got cancer when copying itself from the host computer.

  • @vigneshkumar8210
    @vigneshkumar8210 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    awesome video and channel and teaching was very nice

  • @phanngocnam9531
    @phanngocnam9531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good and funny videos bring a great sense of entertainment!

  • @Knifymoloko
    @Knifymoloko 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. Viva Ted and Co.!

  • @theTdawgYo
    @theTdawgYo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How does crashing turn a car into a monster truck and how exactly is BRCA1 involved in regulating the progression through the cell cycle? But mainly how the monster truck got there

  • @multilapse
    @multilapse 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    well done!

  • @luci4133
    @luci4133 10 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    wait question vsauce just made a video on cancer.....

    • @YouShouldRepeatThat
      @YouShouldRepeatThat 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I noticed that too when I was checking my subscriptions. I guess cancer is just the topic of the day in the educational part of TH-cam.

    • @luci4133
      @luci4133 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      YouShouldRepeatThat but it also happened last week...... vsauce made a video on the web and then so did ted ...... but that is another story

    • @samsamhuns928
      @samsamhuns928 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn I was gonna ask the same question ted and vsauce uploading videos on the same topic

    • @TEDEd
      @TEDEd  10 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Hilarious! We love Vsauce. And they're both named Michael! Great educators think alike.

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess there’s only so many things to talk about, and it had to happen eventually.

  • @CaptivaLP
    @CaptivaLP 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    p53?

  • @dewinthemorning
    @dewinthemorning 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Are there also other genes that have a connection with cancer? Or is the BRCA1 gene the only one?

    • @javierxrtd
      @javierxrtd 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Technically all genes can cause cancer, because if there is a malignant mutation in any gene, it can lead to cancer. Mutations happen since we are born until we die, but most of these mutations are silent and have no effect. Mutations in our genes give us diversity and some even help us evolve and adapt to our environment. Mutations are not all bad, but there are some very bad ones. But, mutations might happens spontaneously by a mistake during DNA replication or by factors that affect us every day like: UV light, Radiation, Water, Pollution and many other things. Our body is constantly fighting off bad mutations, our cells have mechanisms that clone or cells and evaluate those cells if they are 100% correct and are mutation free. If a cell gets cloned and there is a mutation in it, our own body gets rid of that malignant cell, but there are always mistakes, and anything can happen, so that is why we should love our bodies and take care of ourselves, because every cell in our body fights for us everyday until they die and we must not take that for granted. We have amazing bodies and we must be proud of them.

    • @cecilesrs5294
      @cecilesrs5294 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is tp53 gene. I have it.

  • @jeffreybernath6627
    @jeffreybernath6627 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    WHEN DID MY SCREEN GET SO DIRTY??--- Oh, wait...

  • @Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis
    @Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    G. Edward Griffin a world without cancer

  • @MrMMAHouse
    @MrMMAHouse 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT
    NOW, teach us why some foods, radiation, magnetism, and stuff can increase chances of having cancer please!

  • @TritonLifeCsoport
    @TritonLifeCsoport 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We find it interesting and useful, therefore we have translated it to Hungarian language.
    I would like to inquire whether it is possible to add the text file to the video?
    If so, I would like to send you the text file in order to attach it to the video.
    Thank you in advance for your reply!

  • @lagle8
    @lagle8 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vsauce just uploaded: Why don't we all have cancer?

  • @taraandtommy9693
    @taraandtommy9693 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got a ted ad for this

  • @HoneyDubey23
    @HoneyDubey23 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Take the BRCA test to find out if you have a mutation.

  • @falastini8
    @falastini8 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We have two copies in each cell (one from the father, and one from the mother), but do we need both of them, or does only one suffice?

    • @subhanzulfiqar5768
      @subhanzulfiqar5768 ปีที่แล้ว

      We need both of them as a cell needs to maintain the same number of chromosomes (i think we receive half number of chromosomes from father and the other half from mother) but in a cell, only one gene from a pair is dominant (that means it shows its function) while the other is recessive (its function is masked by the other dominant gene). It is in nature's hand which gene will be dominant and which gene will be recessive

  • @AbdullaBoRK
    @AbdullaBoRK 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    الله يجيرنا ويجير المسلمين

  • @FalconFastest123
    @FalconFastest123 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Great vid and all but... why is every man in the vid in his underwear??

    • @GalluZ
      @GalluZ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Becuz this is TedEd. What do you expect? They made you cringe every single day

  • @lleon965
    @lleon965 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    so if failed tumor suppressors are hereditary does that mean (with all technicality aside) that if both parents had a weak one, their child would be more susceptible to cancer?

    • @subhanzulfiqar5768
      @subhanzulfiqar5768 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess so, yeah... because either of the Brca1 gene needs to be dominant and the other recessive... if both of the inherited tumour supressing genes are weak, then the child will be more prone to cancer.

  • @khalilahmadi2037
    @khalilahmadi2037 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Added to "Watch Later". Looking forward xd

  • @markarchy
    @markarchy 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This will make some nightmares!

  • @Robert6P6M
    @Robert6P6M 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the death anxiety.

  • @whynot7018
    @whynot7018 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Question 1) what causes the "cancer to cut the break lines"?

  • @giobasta6918
    @giobasta6918 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    my grandmother died of breast tumour at the age of 29. Maybe she had a faulty breast cancer susceptibility gene 1.

    • @armoredpumpkin8840
      @armoredpumpkin8840 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uhhhhh..... grandmother at 29? So if you wrote that at 10, your mom had you at 13, and your grandmother had her at 13 then 3 years and she is dead. I don’t think that makes a lot of sense. I don’t think that is true

    • @someone-iy6km
      @someone-iy6km 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@armoredpumpkin8840 bro r u ok ?
      His grandma died long a go not now

  • @valentinaselektrikas
    @valentinaselektrikas 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I heard that cancer is caused by dysfunction of cell apoptosis, not over speed of cell division? So which true is true then?

    • @Icemanc200
      @Icemanc200 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Both are true. If an increase in rate of division (through mutations in specific genes like brca1) is compounded with the cells losing their ability to undergo apoptosis (through additional mutations in other genes) you're on your way to developing some real bad cancer.
      The truth of the matter is 5-7 things need to go wrong in the cell for an aggressive cancer to develop. If interested on what these are look up "hallmarks of cancer" by Wineberg. Here they mention but one.

    • @valentinaselektrikas
      @valentinaselektrikas 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Banana Boy Thx for answer. Now I get it its more complex than I thought. I didn knew there is bad cancer and less bad etc...

  • @cousinsal1255
    @cousinsal1255 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    But how do we know the rate of a mutation, the chances of it occurring? Plz do tell

  • @TickedOffPriest
    @TickedOffPriest 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why did it become a monster truck?

  • @dadad40
    @dadad40 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Vraiment très intéressant. Par contre ça va trop vite avec les sous-titres et j'ai dû regarder la vidéo 2 fois.

  • @julieguo5192
    @julieguo5192 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i now know that i'm dangerous

  • @EnviousWingDings
    @EnviousWingDings 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm scared now.

  • @mike9816
    @mike9816 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish my moms brca1 didn't fail :(

  • @congongvk-vuikhoeep6489
    @congongvk-vuikhoeep6489 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good vid

  • @legolas35653
    @legolas35653 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you please do Video on why we can't cure it and why it costs so much ? Thank you

    • @TheZachary86
      @TheZachary86 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm no doctor/scientist but i think the problem has always been effectively targeting the cancer cells without harming the rest of the body. We can target bacteria pretty effectively because they have completely different/unique cell mechanisms that we can exploit. The best solution we got at the moment for cancer is to introduce poison into our bodies in the hopes that it kills the cancer cells faster than it kills the healthy ones - which sucks a lot

  • @theamazingbandgeek
    @theamazingbandgeek 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Potentially? More like commonly. :(

  • @Pendoza84
    @Pendoza84 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So gimme more of that geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!

  • @Alitari
    @Alitari 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Why are the dudes only partially dressed, while the gals are fully dressed?

    • @blockdestroyer5892
      @blockdestroyer5892 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      if a dress is considered fully dressed than i dknt know life

    • @GalluZ
      @GalluZ 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cuz this is TedEd. What do you expect? They made you cringe every single day

  • @rikshaawala
    @rikshaawala 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dam how many times did she say brca1?

  • @GUITARHEROBONES
    @GUITARHEROBONES 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shouldn't there be some sort of steroid to make all BRCA1 cells detect cancer cell at the start of their growth and never have one slip by and create a tumor

  • @Arikiatrukido
    @Arikiatrukido 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ted - Ed, lessons for the peasant indisde us.

  • @chel4688
    @chel4688 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who said that i want to be a doctor?

  • @johndoefpv
    @johndoefpv 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    So... last week Vsauce made a video about the web and TED-Ed followed with a similar video on that very same day. Today Vsauce made a video about cancer and you are doing the same video on the same day aswell? Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

  • @AndyMC_YT
    @AndyMC_YT 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can this really be a coincidence? Vsauce does a video about the web, you make a video about the web, Vsauce makes a video about cancer, you make a video about cancer. I'm trusting you right now, but if this happens again, I'm going to call copying on you.

  • @Chill-Ice
    @Chill-Ice 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So, cells conforming to the majority is great while someone conforming to the majority is sometimes not good

  • @hiromifajardo1902
    @hiromifajardo1902 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you do more Nordic mythology vids

  • @yaarap
    @yaarap 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why are vsauce and ted doing the same topics now?

  • @profanelogistics
    @profanelogistics 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just need better nanotech to combat genetic insuperiorities.
    And high alkalinity is suppose to erraticate, disable, or stop these mutations. But we are more acidic with our diets... and almost every thing we create nowadays is toxic or radiated.

  • @ayush8650
    @ayush8650 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    onco genes

  • @melaniewalker6706
    @melaniewalker6706 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm scared now :(

  • @noneyabusiness7317
    @noneyabusiness7317 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    why do the boys have to be in underwere

  • @Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis
    @Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anybody watching this should stop and watch b17 cancer cure, or listen to Rick Simpson story run from the cure.

    • @Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis
      @Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Watch G. Edward Griffin world without cancer, it's a lot more in depth with how cells work, great film if you're Interested this. Maybe you will learn something that's my aim.

  • @rhysnickolds9795
    @rhysnickolds9795 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is not what I like to see

    • @NathanielBeaumont06
      @NathanielBeaumont06 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      i dont like it ether but it is interesting

    • @Lucuskane
      @Lucuskane 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do mean by that? elaborate, I don't want to misunderstand you.

    • @NathanielBeaumont06
      @NathanielBeaumont06 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      i mean that i am sincerely interested in the way healthy cells change into cancer cells
      ps.by the way is it not possible to genetically modify a virus that attacks these mutated cancer cells

  • @leonxl
    @leonxl 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So where's the cure!?

    • @Dinnerbone_Jevin
      @Dinnerbone_Jevin 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** You don't know me, but I wish you'd feel better and get well. As we Asians say, Aja aja fighting!

    • @TheHaillstorm
      @TheHaillstorm 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      be vegan don't put crap in your body

    • @lyvelawliet5492
      @lyvelawliet5492 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hope you beat the cancer dude, wich in turn means beating your own cells, wich mean beating yourself... MASOCHISM FTW.
      But seriously best wishes.

    • @khangb3
      @khangb3 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Drazen Jankovic you beat cancer?

    • @hephaestus9901
      @hephaestus9901 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheHaillstorm that wont eliminate the risk of cancer and there arent god plants that can cure cancer sorry

  • @murshidanajnin3694
    @murshidanajnin3694 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hiiiiiiii

  • @bronze_summer723
    @bronze_summer723 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish that every cell with cancer would just die in an instant and no one would have it
    A girl can prey

  • @TeenageWheelchair
    @TeenageWheelchair 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ok video but i cant stand her voice omg

  • @rachelc8368
    @rachelc8368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    on my life this is the ugliest animation i have seen

  • @abigailsockeye1586
    @abigailsockeye1586 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    gay analogies, you don't need them

  • @MagicOfDark
    @MagicOfDark 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like to think of it like computer networking. The sum check is used for error detection when transferring data, there is a low chance of it not catching an error but there are a few cases where the error won't be caught and the file being transferred becomes corrupted like it got cancer when copying itself from the host computer.

  • @HoaVu-kp2ul
    @HoaVu-kp2ul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good and funny videos bring a great sense of entertainment!

  • @Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis
    @Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    G. Edward Griffin a world without cancer