New Gene Could Be a Master Switch for Cancer
Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:54 PM ET
By Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a new cancer-causing gene that they believe could be a molecular master switch for the disease.
Dubbed the Pokemon 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.
"Pokemon is a main switch in the molecular network that leads toward cancer," said Dr Pier Paolo Pandolfi, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York who headed the team that identified the gene.
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