Managing its cancerous cells, a tiny organism offers its own solution to a big question, how to find balance in an destabilised natural environment.

This animated film presents a mythical creature inspired by research at the Arizona Cancer and Evolution Center at the Biodesign Institute (US). The film incorporates animated sequences of an in silico model organism built, cell by cell, in a game engine. Its cells have the mechanics of cancer programmed into them and its life cycle is inspired by radically new therapeutic approaches to cancer, centred on living long healthy lives with cancer instead of trying to cure and failing to cure a disease that has touched so many.

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