SciShow: New Cancer Drug Results and Vampire Bat Friendships

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Content of the Lesson: This week, researchers announced a novel cancer drug has become the first of its kind to reach clinical trials. Also, new research into vampire bat friendships could help us learn more about animal (and human) behavior. Thumbnail image credit: Uwe Schmidt Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/what-is-cancer.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/genetics/genes-and-cancer/oncogenes-tumor-suppressor-genes.html https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03600883 https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.3003 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824632/ https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/KRAS#normalfunction https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1694-1 https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/phase-i-clinical-trial https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/kimmel_cancer_center/centers/melanoma/research/anti_pd_1.html https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/friendships/art-20044860 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100337 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeAiUBM18Cs https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2019-10/cp-ari102419.php


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