Suppressor To Prevent Pancreatic Cancer

Honor Whiteman recently wrote about a new study confirming that not all gene mutations are bad, after discovering a mutation that appears to give a known tumor suppressor gene a boost against pancreatic cancer. They found that mice possessing a specific mutation in the p53 gene were significantly less likely to develop pancreatic tumors when compared with those that did not have this gene mutation.

Laura Attardi, Ph.D. of the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, senior study author along with her colleagues, reported the findings in the journal Cancer Cell. The p53 …read more