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Discovery of "Cancer-Proof" Rodent Cells
anglico sends news of research out of the University of Rochester that has identified a gene that "cancer-proofs" cells in rodents. "Despite a 30-year lifespan that gives ample time for cells to grow cancerous, a small rodent species called a naked mole rat has never been found with tumors of any kind — and now biologists at the University of Rochester think they know why. The findings, presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that the mole rat's cells express a gene called p16 that makes the cells 'claustrophobic,' stopping the cells' proliferation when too many of them crowd together, cutting off runaway growth before it can start. The effect of p16 is so pronounced that when researchers mutated the cells to induce a tumor, the cells' growth barely changed, whereas regular mouse cells became fully cancerous."
I'm not worried. I always use poison or traps anyway. You see, its just to difficult to reliably give them cancer.
Resistant, nay, impervious to cancer? So that's the sitch she was always talking about!
Most men are not thought unwise until they speak.
They also have a natural instinct to fight evil and be funky.
Or no longer present articles on perl.com.
1. Set up a Gene bank with intact chromosomes from when your in your 20-30's.
2. Replace old you genes with young you genes?
3. Profit! (Immortality!)
You post on /. AND you don't want to resemble Yoda when you grow up? I call posting under false pretense! ;)
Now that this has made the news I expect that 'Mole Rat Extract' will soon be apearing in spam as the next curall for cancer. Of coruse 'Big Pharma' will be keeping it secret but you can buy it from our site for only $699.00 per dose.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Any episode of KP would tell you that. Go Rufus!