The `Smiling` Face Of Cancer
January 20th 2012 04:54
Category: Life
Image you are a research scientist. You and your research team have been working on a cancer protein cell for the last dozen years. You peer down a microscope and you glimpse what looks like perfect smiley face staring back at you. The research team were somewhat stunned
When you look at the actual cell it does have a remarkable looking smiley face as if to say,hey! look at me see what I can do.
The research team at Gene laboratory at Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research University of Sydney have been trying to unlock the behaviour of a trigger protein called beta-catenin, which causes cancer invading the host cell nucleus and activating genes.
These cells will multiply and ultimately transforms normal cells into tumour cells.
That is where the cancer can grow after it invades the nucleus of a healthy cell.
If the protein doesn't cannot invade the nucleus then cancer will not occur.
Researchers are studying how the protein gets in the nucleus so that they can hopefully work out how to shut off the cancer from actually starting.
Cancer affects many people world wide, I just happen to be one of the statistics.
Fortunately my cancer was diagnosed relatively early and that is the key especially in men. Men in their late 30’s should see their medical practitioner on a regular basis.If I did not heed the warning signs then I would not be writing this blog.
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Hi S.L.
So far so good, having radio therapy in the next few months.
How are you going?