HOW TO BIOHACK YOUR CELLS TO FIGHT CANCER

INFOGRAPHIC/ 3D/ ANIMATION

The human body is made up of about 30 trillion cells that carry a code which has been duplicated over and over for billions of years – with varying degrees of accuracy. So what happens when the system breaks down and the machinery turns on itself, leading to cancer? Greg Foot dives into the science of how biologists are biohacking the human body to try to fix the seemingly unfixable.

Commissioned by sciencemedia.studio for UCL and TedEd
Presented bt Greg Foot
Written by Greg Foot and Pierangelo Pirak
Directed by Pierangelo Pirak
Illustration by Patrick Walsh
Coloring by Patricia Ferguson
Composer Erik Samothrakis
Science consultants Martin Pule and Claire Roddie
Animation assistants Cosimo Chirico and David Antolini
Thanks to Svenja Wheatley and Rosamund Yu