Our stem cells in our body can make practically everything, including cancer. The odds of having cancer depend on these stem cells. Stem cells that live to long increase your chances of having cancer. The head of the Strang Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology, Hermann Steller, along with Maria Garcia-Fernandez and colleagues explored a gene called Sept4. This gene encodes a protein that increases cell death. The name of this protein is ARTS.
This article was very well written and for the most part easy to read. My question to the author of this article would be why did that name the gene Sept4. Is that when they discovered it? Another question would be why did they name the protein ARTS. near the end of the article it got a little chunky, meaning it was harder to understand.
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/10/15/gene_identified_that_prevents_stem_cells_from_turning_cancerous.html
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