Tumor Suppression Gene Discovered

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."

Comments

Re:DNA methylation reversible?

[qbwiz]

This sounds like a job for Folding@Home....

Re:Effect

[TubeSteak]

For the mod that didn't notice and decided to mod +1 Insightful:

HermanAB is going for the subtle spelling nazi troll.

the AC who submitted this article made the mistake of using the word "effect" instead of affect

Here's a link to proper usage of those two words
http://www.lessontutor.com/eeseffect.html

I highly reccommend (to anyone that always screws up certain spelling/grammar issues) that you get a notecard or something and write down concise summaries of the things that trip you up.

Stick it in the area around your keyboard or monitor and constantly refer to it. That's how I finally stopped F'ing up It's and Its

Re:Cylon blood

[HermanAB]

Ahah - so the Cylons were actually a bunch of medical orderly robots gone wild who decided that the only way to eradicate all disease is to eradicate the human carriers...