Pokémon causes cancer

[bloodyjack]

Scientists have discovered a new cancer-causing gene they believe could be a molecular master switch for the disease.

Dubbed the Pokémon gene, it is one of several so-called oncogenes that lead normal cells to become cancerous. But it could be one of the most important.

"Pokémon is a main switch in the molecular network that leads towards cancer," said Dr. Pier Paolo Pandolfi, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York who headed the team that identified the gene.

"If we could turn Pokémon off, it may block the oncogenic circuitry and stall the malignant process."

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[GRLMGC]

1. Why Pokemon?

Those little turds have nothing to do with cancer. :cry:

On edit: Oh, I see how it got the name.

[Crandor]

2. "coincidental"

nope, not contrived at all... it just happened to be called that, at odds of 8,031,810,175 to 1 against ;)

[DrWeird]

3. Wouldn't be the first named after a cartoon character.

Sonichedgehog gene was named in, what, mid-90's?

[Dear Maggie]

4. Maybe we're dealing with autoimmune issues

Thanks for sharing - Maybe we're dealing with autoimmune issues. At that initial stage, it's not cancer, but multiple cancers can grow out of autoimmune functioning of one's immune system.

There is a lot of cancer that develops out of the autoimmune diseases started by too much exposure to the 2-butoxyethanol family of chemicals (n-butyl ethers). Stop that exposure, and the cancer rates would decline sharply; and so would the loss of jobs, and the loss of families; the burden on the medical industry ... lots of things

It's amazing how many things, are autoimmune like MS which is an autoimmune dysfunction of the nervous system

The autoimmune red blood cells from this chemical exposure should be THE FATIGUE doctors are looking for in CFS, CFIDS or 'gulf war syndrome' If this chemical exposure is the root cause of harm, people will have the hemolytic anemia that it causes; however, I suspect that it is autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

Can we help these people? Do a study to help the immune system with glyconutrients Help your immune system 'cell to cell communication' improve