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Oct 2023
22m 38s

Slowing down cancer cells

Garvan Institute of Medical Research
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There's no doubt that medical research is accelerating – thanks to cutting-edge technology we can do experiments faster, at a bigger scale and crunch more data more efficiently. But today we're talking to Associate Professor Liz Caldon, who is slowing down her experiments to understand how we can better tackle cancer drug resistance.

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