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Usually, I would be standing[br]on this stage over here,

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conducting the college orchestra,

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because I'm a music professor.

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But tonight I'm going to talk

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about my moonlight activities[br]in the field of science.

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(Laughter)

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And how they led to a cancer research lab[br]and an important breakthrough.

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Over the past eight years,[br]I've had the great pleasure

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of working with some brilliant[br]and dedicated scientists.

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They were very open-minded,[br]and we had a common dream:

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that in the future, children[br]would not have to suffer from cancer

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or from the terrible side effects[br]of toxic drugs or radiation,

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because we believed[br]there just had to be a better way.

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There had to be a better way,[br]and we think we may have found it.

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A scientist said,

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"You're killing more cancer cells[br]than as if you had used radiation."

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That same scientist went on,

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"If you had spent millions of dollars

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developing a new drug[br]that killed this many cancer cells,

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it would be a home run."[br]

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This was an astonishing thing to hear,[br]especially for a music professor

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who had just completed[br]his first experiments in a cancer lab.

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But we didn't use any radiation.

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We didn't use any drugs.

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So what did we do?

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I have here two identical tuning forks,[br]both tuned to the note A,

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the note an orchestra tunes to.

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These forks are both made to vibrate[br]440 times per second.

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We say their frequency is 440 hertz.

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If I tap this fork,[br]putting little pulses of energy into it,

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the second fork[br]will also vibrate in sympathy,

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and if I silence this fork,

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we just may hear the other[br]singing its tone.

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(Sound of an A note)

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We say that I'm inducing

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a sympathetic resonant vibration[br]in the second fork.

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It only works because both forks[br]are tuned to the exact same frequency.

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Many of us have seen this very charming[br]young man on the Internet

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who shatters crystal glasses[br]with his powerful voice.

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But if you watch him carefully,

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you'll see that first he taps the glass[br]with his finger and listens.

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The glass sings[br]its natural resonant pitch.

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Then he takes a deep breath[br]and sings a loud, long note.

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He induces a resonant vibration[br]in the crystal glass.

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The vibration grows larger[br]and larger and larger

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until the glass is shattered.

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On the other end of this scale,

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we have a giant bridge[br]made out of concrete and steel,

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a suspension bridge,[br]the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

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Cars, and trucks, and busses[br]are going over it every day.

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Unfortunately,[br]where they built this bridge,

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there was a steady wind blowing across it,

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and one day, this wind induces[br]a small vibration in the bridge,

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hardly noticeable,

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but the frequency of the vibration

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matches the resonant frequency[br]of some part of the bridge,

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and the vibrations gets larger[br]and larger and larger

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until the bridge collapses[br]into the river below.

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A destructive resonant frequency.

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So on one end of the scale,

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we have a giant concrete and steel bridge[br]destroyed by resonance

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and on the other,[br]we have a small crystal glass, shattered.

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So maybe we could shatter[br]something even smaller,

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something really small, something[br]you would need a microscope to see.

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Maybe we could shatter[br]a living microorganism.

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But to do that you'd need some sort[br]of theory to serve as a basis.

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And we find that basis in a wonderful book

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called "The Rainbow and the Worm:[br]The Physics of Organisms",

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by a scientist, Mae Wan Ho.

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That book makes a very strong case

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that living organisms and cells[br]are liquid crystals,

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or in the least, they have[br]many properties of liquid crystals.

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Now, we are all familiar[br]with liquid crystals

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because they are in our laptop,[br]computer screens:

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LCD display, Liquid Crystal Display.

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We can change the qualities[br]of the liquid crystals

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in our computer screen by sending[br]special electronic signals to it.

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We can change the color and the shape[br]on the screen with these signals.

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So maybe we could change

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a biological living liquid crystal[br]with a special electronic signal.

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But in order to do that,[br]we would need some kind of device.

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So we searched the US Patent database,

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and we found this invention by a physician

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Dr. James Bare of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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It's called [br]Resonant Frequency Therapy Device,

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and its purpose is to induce[br]a resonant vibration

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in a living organism or a cell.

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And there are two really important things[br]about this device.

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The first is that it uses[br]a very special kind of antenna:

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they take a hollow glass sphere,

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they evacuate the air,[br]they put in some helium gas,

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and when we send in[br]our electronic signals,

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the helium gas lights up[br]like a fluorescent light.

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An electrified gas is called a plasma,[br]so this is called a plasma antenna.

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It has many special properties[br]uniquely suited for this kind of work.

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The second important aspect[br]about Dr. Bare's invention

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is that the output always pulses:[br]it's on, it's off, it's on and it's off.

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This is very important,[br]because when you're doing research

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on the effects of electromagnetic waves[br]on living organisms and cells,

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if the signal is constantly on,

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you're in danger of inducing[br]heat in those cells,

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and heat causes[br]indiscriminate destruction.

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We don't want that.[br]We want targeted destruction.

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So, we don't have to worry about heat.

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And now, we go to the biology laboratory.

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We take dr. Bare's device

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and the hunt begins through a microscope

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for a frequency which will shatter[br]a living microorganism.

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We have a method[br]of controlling Dr. Bear's device

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by an input control frequency.

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So if I put in, say, 100 hertz,

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out will come 100 pulses per second.

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If I put in 200 hertz,[br]I will get 200 pulses.

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So now we're searching[br]for the magic frequency,

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and we start with 100 Hz,

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and we look through the microscope[br]to see if anything is happening.

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We watch for five minutes.

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Nothing happens.

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So we try 101 Hz.

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We look through the scope[br]for five minutes,

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and nothing happens.

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So we try 102, 103 and so on.

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Over the course of 15 months,

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we try hundreds and hundreds[br]of frequencies, if not thousands,

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until we find the magic combination.

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The answer is you have to have[br]two input frequencies

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- one low, one high -

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and the higher frequency[br]must be eleven times the lower.

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It's what we, musicians,[br]would call the eleventh harmonic.

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When we add the eleventh harmonic,

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we begin to shatter microorganisms[br]like a crystal glass.

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These are the first videos taken.

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We showed these videos to our friends[br]in the Biology department.

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They said they hadn't seen[br]anything quite like it.

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Seems to be a new phenomenon.

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These organisms are being shattered[br]by our electronic signals.

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This is a harmless organism,[br]almost friendly, a little blepharisma.

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Normally, they're very fast swimmers,

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but when you approach a frequency[br]to which they are vulnerable,

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they begin to slow down, then they stop,

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and then they begin to disintegrate[br]within about three minutes.

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So now we know we can destroy[br]a microorganism,

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and the question comes up,

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"But can you target a specific organism[br]with a specific frequency?"

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So in this next video,

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you'll see a large organism in the center,[br]a paramecium undergoing disintegration,

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and swimming all around it,

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a tiny different organism[br]which is unharmed.

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If we're lucky,

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we'll also hear the audio as I narrate[br]the experiment live in a noisy lab.

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(Video) Perhaps you can see[br]this sort of fireworks effect happening,

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in the growing blister[br]to the right of the organism.

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And here comes a little neighbor,[br]wondering what's going on.

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He's testing.

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And you can see blisters forming now

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on the lower left quadrant[br]and upper left quadrant.

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The shape is now changing.

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And a major explosion at the top."

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So now we have some evidence

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that we can target specific microorganisms[br]with specific frequencies.

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And we made several more videos,

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and we filmed the destruction[br]of hundreds of microorganisms.

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About this time,

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we meet a cancer researcher,[br]and we [show] him these videos.

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This results in an invitation[br]to spend four months

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in a cancer research lab[br]trying to shatter cancer cells.

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This is our setup in the lab.

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You can see the microscope[br]with cancer cells on it.

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Here's the plasma tube,

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and here is my little[br]frequency control box.

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First, we attack pancreatic cancer.

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Take a good look at this slide

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because the next one[br]will look quite different.

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After we treat these cells,[br]they change their shape and size,

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and they begin to grow long,[br]rope-like structures out the sides.

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They look something like antennas.

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I call them bio-antennas,[br]for biological antennas.

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It's as if the cancer cells[br]are trying to tune in to our signal.

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It also turns out

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this is the beginning of a process[br]of destruction for cancer cells.

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We now know that cancer is vulnerable

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between the frequencies[br]of 100 000 hertz and 300 000 hertz.

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So now we attack leukemia cells.

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Leukemia cell no. 1[br]tries to grow a copy of itself,

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but the new cell is shattered[br]into dozens of fragments

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and scattered across the slide.

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Leukemia cell no. 2[br]then hyperinflates and also dies.

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Leukemia cell no. 3 then tries,[br]to make another cancer cell,

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the new cell is shattered[br]and the original cell dies.

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But killing a handful of leukemia cells[br]is not enough for a patient.

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What kind of numbers can we do?

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In repeated[br]controlled laboratory experiments,

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independently essayed[br]by the two top experts,

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we killed an average of 25% to 42%[br]of the leukemia cells,

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as high as 60%.

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We also determined

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that we slow the growth rate[br]of the cancer by as much as 65%.

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So, a double effect.

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Now we attack ovarian cancer cells.

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This is a more distant shot.

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Here you see brackets[br]coming up around the cells,

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showing groups of ovarian cancer cells[br]which are being destroyed.

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You can see by the end of the video

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that great many ovarian cancer cells[br]were destroyed.

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Now we attack pancreatic cancer once more.

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In the center of the screen[br]is a clump of pancreatic cancer cells

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like a microtumor under the microscope.

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We turn on our electronic signals,[br]and the tumor shrinks and is broken up.

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The cells are disconnecting,[br]disaggregating;

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the opposite of forming a tumor.

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And some of the cells are destroyed.

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In our most recent work,[br]we attack the deadly organism MRSA.

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MRSA is particularly dangerous

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because it's resistant[br]to many common antibiotics.

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Thousands of people[br]die every year from MRSA.

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They have drugs for it,[br]but they have very toxic side effects.

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We found that our electronic signals

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could actually eliminate[br]antibiotic resistance in MRSA.

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Then, by adding a very small amount[br]of a common antibiotic,

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we were able to kill MRSA[br]and slow its growth rate.

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Since I was a 17-year-old[br]highschool student

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with twin interest[br]in both music and science,

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I never imagined

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the two would come together[br]in a cancer research lab.

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I now believe that the future[br]cancer treatment rooms for children

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will be a very different place.

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It would be a pleasant place

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where children gather[br]and make new friends.

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They probably[br]won't even know they're sick.

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They'll draw pictures,

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color in their books,[br]play with their toys,

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all the while unaware that above them[br]are beautiful blue pinkish plasma lights

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emanating healing,[br]pulsing electric fields,

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shattering their cancer,[br]painlessly and non-toxically,

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one cell at a time.

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Thank you.

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(Aplause)