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Since 2004, the FDA has approved three other epigenetic drugs that are thought to work at least in part by stimulating tumor-suppressor genes that disease has silenced. The great hope for ongoing epigenetic research is that with the flick of a biochemical switch, we could tell genes that play a role in many diseases - including cancer, schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's, diabetes and many others - to lie dormant. We could, at long last, have a trump card to play against Darwin...
...defines an “assault rifle” as any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine and at least two of: “a folding or telescoping stock; a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; a bayonet mount; a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and a grenade launcher...
When the lung cancer drug Iressa won approval from the Food and Drug Administration almost a year ago, it showed great promise as a tumor suppressor with side effects far less severe than those of chemotherapy...
Taken together, Kaelin's results suggest that there are both usual and backup cell death pathways. p53 is a "professional tumor suppressor" and p73 is its understudy...
...Under normal conditions p73 is not a professional tumor suppressor," he said. "But if we are smart enough we might be able to make it act like...