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Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Uncogen, Is a Mutation That Causes Cancer?
Uncogen, for those who are listening, is just a gen that causes cancer. If you inject an iron channel and force the cell to remain in an electrical state where it's connected to its neighbors andit doesn't depolarize, then even though that uncogen is blazingly, strongly expressed, you won't have a tumor because you're overriding that. I was just having an analogy in my head. It's almost imagine you have these kids, and they're misbehaved. But if you have an adult who's stern enough, they can override sbehaved kids. In this analogy, the adult is like the electrical communication. So you can force that electrical communication,
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