27 January 2008
Cancer: the yeast solution
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Striking similarities have been found between humans and simple baker's yeast. While yeasts don't get cancer, they do have one of the major hallmarks of malignancy -- genetic instability. Nobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse joins Dr Alex Franzusoff and Sir Gustav Nossel to explain what cancer is, and to discuss why a better understanding of yeast can help with cancer and many common diseases.
Recorded at the Big Ideas, Brilliant Minds: 2007 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures held in Melbourne from 25 June to 20 July 2007
Guests
Sir Paul Nurse, FRS
President of Rockefeller University in New York City
Dr Alex Franzusoff
Vice President of Research & Development and Founding Scientist, GlobeImmune, Louisville, Colorado, USA
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