BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence
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Pancreatic Cancer - Is There a Fungal Player?
There is strong evidence that a fungal player causes an inflammatory response in the pancreatic microbiome. This triggers sufficient underlying cellular changes to induce early stage pancreatic cancer. Every part of our body has its microbiome, my testes have a microbiome and so does the uterus. The lungs have a very important microbiome which contributes to protecting us from infection. And also it sets us up for the possibility of infection. So someday we may find a one way of treating SARS-CoV-2 of COVID would be to alter the microbiome of the lung rather than necessarily having to wait until you're infected or necessarily have an immunization. We may always need immunization. I don't know
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