Cancer Cells Communicate – But What If We Could Interrupt Them?

Video Oct 28, 2019 | Taken from TED, YouTube

When cancer cells are closely packed together in a tumor, they're able to communicate with each other and coordinate their movement throughout the body.

What if we could interrupt this process?

In this accessible talk about cutting-edge science, Hasini Jayatilaka shares her work on an innovative method to stop cancer cells from communicating -- and halt their fatal ability to spread.

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