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Tumor Suppression Gene Discovered

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the come-see-the-violence-inherent-in-the-system dept.

An anonymous reader writes ScieceDaily is reporting that researchers at Ohio State University may have identified a new and unusual tumor suppression gene that could effect cancers of the lung, head, and neck. From the article: "The gene, known as TCF21, is silenced in tumor cells through a chemical change known as DNA methylation, a process that is potentially reversible. The findings might therefore lead to new strategies for the treatment and early detection of lung cancer, a disease that killed an estimated 163,510 Americans in 2005. The study could also lead to a better understanding of the molecular changes that occur in tumor cells during lung-cancer progression."

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  1. Hmm... by errxn · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They didn't happen to discover this gene by examining the blood of a Human/Cylon hybrid fetus, did they?

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    1. Re:Hmm... by lifeisgreat · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      By "They" I assume you mean GLAD, because I don't know of anyone but the cabal of geriatric liberal abortion doctors who would experiment on a fetus, though it's not their usual game. But then I suppose they can't spend all their time aborting things, experimentation is another depravity of the liberal mind.

      Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

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  2. Re:good news for me (and you) by lifeisgreat · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Just as I exposed earlier, it seems obvious to me that people interested in cryonics and/or gene therapy to stymie God's garbage-collection algorithm (cancer) and reach immortality, are without a doubt either liberal abortion supporters, or liberal abortion doctors themselves. Whoever this Christoph Plass person is, not doubt his doctorate is in abortionology.

    This zeal for controlling the forces of life is what drives liberal doctors to abort any gestating beings they can get their hands on, and no doubt their jobs will be easier now that they can extend their lives to an unheard-of 70 years or more.

    I'll keep fighting from the trenches, but there's a finite limit on how much I can pray for GLAD members. Some day I'll start a distributed prayer network, I guess with some kind of prayer encapsulation format, QoS guaranteed! Until then, I can use your help.

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  3. Inadvertant mouse gesture killed first reply! by Naruki · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I agree that almost nobody deserves cancer. I except the tobacco company executives, who deserve every kind of cancer smoking can produce.

    For public smokers, I hope only that they are forced to sit in small, poorly ventilated rooms filled with smoke of a type they find unbearable for hours on end, every single day of their lives, until they die or quit smoking in public.

    But that's just me.