An international team of scientists believes it has found cancer's master switch with the discovery of a gene they dubbed "Pokemon."Read the whole thing here
Like the electronic game figures - tiny monsters with bad tempers - the cancer-triggering gene apparently instigates the misbehavior of other cancer-causing genes, leading to tumor formation.
In today's issue of the journal Nature, researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, in collaboration with teams in Japan and Britain, announce that the gene plays a key role in starting a malignancy. As a result, scientists now believe they have stumbled upon an important new target for an anti-cancer drug
Friday, January 21, 2005
Now this sounds hopeful:
Scientists identify a single 'master' gene that seems to turn on cancer-causing action of other errant genes
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