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Journey to the Microcosmos
Season 7 · Episode 36
How Do We Find Cancer?
0.013mMarch 25, 2024
Usually on Journey to the Microcosmos, we spend our time delving into the microscopic world and the surprising things that microbes have to teach us. But today, we would like to talk about Hank Green, and what was his cancer.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
- Episode 2When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
- Episode 3The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
- Episode 4Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
- Episode 5We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
- Episode 6Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
- Episode 7This Neon World Is Inside Your Fruit
- Episode 8Up Close With The World's Deadliest Animal
- Episode 9Falling In Love With Microscopy
- Episode 10The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
- Episode 11Why Are Some Birds Blue?
- Episode 12The Electric Relationship Between Plants And Bees
- Episode 13Floating Cities of Scum
- Episode 14Liverworts Use The Rain To Make Their Clones
- Episode 15Bacteria That Survive In Gelatinous Colonies
- Episode 16Is It Possible To Photosynthesize In The Dark?
- Episode 17This Predator Is A Shape-Shifter
- Episode 18Blood-Sucking Escape Artists
- Episode 19This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims
- Episode 20These Dancing Worms Are Surprisingly Useful
- Episode 21Some Ciliates Are Hiding a Secret Weapon
- Episode 22Can Microbes Just Appear Out Of Nowhere?
- Episode 23Trying To Solve Some Micro Mysteries
- Episode 24What Do These Algae Do With Four Genomes?
- Episode 25The History of Red Algae
- Episode 26These Mites Give Cheese Its Flavor
- Episode 27Why Picocyanobacteria Might Just Outlast All Of Us
- Episode 28We Built A Tardigrade Trap, And It Worked
- Episode 29The Microbial Universe That Makes Kombucha
- Episode 30This Microbe Hasn't Been Seen Since The 1930s
- Episode 31What Makes A Microbe Rare?
- Episode 32These Tiny Crustaceans Hate Change
- Episode 33This special diatom is having a very bad day
- Episode 34We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To
- Episode 35These Slugs Led Us to the Last Good Place on the Internet
- Episode 36How Do We Find Cancer?
- Episode 37Watch a Stentor Fix Itself
- Episode 38This Amoeba Made Armor From Its Dead Enemies
- Episode 39We Found Something Strange in Portugal
- Episode 40We've Been Looking For This Purple Amoeba for 6 Years!
- Episode 41You Have Something in Common With This Horrifying Tube Worm
- Episode 42Tiny Mysteries from the Black Sea
- Episode 43We Found a Very, Very Tiny Kraken
- Episode 44How Does The Microcosmos Change With the Seasons?
- Episode 45Why Are Ciliates So Hairy?
- Episode 46What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
- Episode 47Microscopic Beauty from a Nuclear Test Site
- Episode 48Why Do Planarians Have Those Triangles on their Heads?
- Episode 49A Collection of Tiny Universes
- Episode 50Some Microbes Also Take Naps
- Episode 51We Answer Your Questions!
- Episode 52We Spilled Ink On Our Slides to See What Would Happen
- Episode 53The Future of Microscopy (and end of our Journey)