Paul Nurse, Society and Health, Tue 7 July

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Channel: Cambridge University · 2009 · Education

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Cell biology and evolutionary medicine. Professor Sir Paul Nurse (Rockefeller University, New York, USA). Summary: Darwins ideas of the tree of life and natural selection continue to inform medicine and biomedical research. For example, the single tree of life means that model organisms from bacteria to mice can be recruited to better understand human health and disease, whilst natural selection is applicable to the immune system and to cancer.

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