Posted On: 10/09/2015 12:28:54 AM
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The elephant p53 story is on Newsweek.
"The answer almost certainly has to do with TP53, “the single most studied gene in molecular biology,” according to Sue Armstrong, a British science journalist who just wrote a book about it. A tumor suppressor gene, TP53 is the police officer of the cellular world. If a cell with faulty DNA is replicating, the TP53 gene encodes a protein called p53, which can arrest the process and allow it to move forward only once the DNA is fixed. Or it can shoot to kill, getting rid of the cell with bad DNA. P53 is, as one of its discoverers famously declared, “the guardian of the genome.”"
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/10/16/researcher...80822.html
"The answer almost certainly has to do with TP53, “the single most studied gene in molecular biology,” according to Sue Armstrong, a British science journalist who just wrote a book about it. A tumor suppressor gene, TP53 is the police officer of the cellular world. If a cell with faulty DNA is replicating, the TP53 gene encodes a protein called p53, which can arrest the process and allow it to move forward only once the DNA is fixed. Or it can shoot to kill, getting rid of the cell with bad DNA. P53 is, as one of its discoverers famously declared, “the guardian of the genome.”"
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/10/16/researcher...80822.html
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