Power behind 'master' gene for cancer discovered

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141119112424.htm

Power behind 'master' gene for cancer discovered

It’s hard to believe, but there are similarities between bean sprouts and human cancer. In bean sprouts, a collection of amino acids known as a protein complex allows them to grow longer in the darkness than in the light. In humans, a similar protein complex called CSN and its subunit CSN6 is now believed to be a cancer-causing gene that impacts activity of another gene (Myc) tied to tumor growth, researchers report.

AmyQ

Thank you for these informative and "hopeful" studies. I just know one day BC will be irradicated, just not in my lifetime.

sunny8

Wow! That is amazing information. thank you for posting. I am so hopeful now that maybe there is a bit of light in this dark tunnel. How wonderful it would be if they could just target the specific gene rather than the current treatment of killing all our cells.

dlb823

I get the potential behind this discovery, but some of the article leaves me kind of confused.

"...a similar protein complex called CSN and its subunit CSN6 is now believed to be a cancer-causing gene...

How or why are a protein complex and a gene being deemed similar? I thought they were two very different things.