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Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers

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Cancer and Immunotherapy - What's Next?

I'm curious to know where, if anywhere, other researchers have kind of taken up your challenge and actually brought this into the development of cancer treatment. I think there's really a lot of interest out there because it's clear that it doesn't work just to try to kill as many cancer cells as you possibly can. There's been a lot of recent interest in immunotherapy, which is the beginnings of an attempt to understand the interactions of cancer cells with the immune system. People may not be talking about ants, the analogies with ants, but I think people are definitely very interested in thinking about how we could understand cancer as an ecological and evolutionary process.

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