On the Via Dolores of an ancient monastery on the island of Rhodes
Okay, here’s
one to stretch your biochemical understanding.
To make sense of it, you need to know the following:
Apoptosis: The killing of cells.
Angiogenesis: The growth of blood vessels.
Transcription
factor: A sequence in the genome that
controls how fast, or whether, a gene gets transcribed and eventually turned
into a protein.
Well, these
guys (and girls, mostly) from various institutions all over the place have
combined efforts and discovered a transcription factor that somehow discourages
apoptosis in tumor cells, apparently by encouraging angiogenesis. Thus, the enemy is revealed and science can
get on with suppressing it. At least, that’s
what it seems like to me. Read the
article, and then explain it to me!
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.abm2496
Screwed up. This should be with Myrl’sBlog. Oh, well
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