Cancer Breakthrough

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101117104454.htm

Scientists in different research teams from Germany and the UK have gotten together and found something fascinating. They studied and explained the cell phases of prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase, and what happens during to the spindle fibers and the centromeres. They explained that with a regular cell, the centromeres will split from each other to the two different ends of the cell. However, if the centromeres do not split, for some reason, the cells become considered cancerous. Although, while studying the different phases and seeing why the cells split and why some die, they found a certain protein that controls the centromeres' separation. With that, scientists are excited as they will be able to find ways to target cancerous cells and regulate them to where they will split and form new cells normally.

I thought this article was a little confusing, I didn't think that many things were explained. Though while I was reading it, and how they mentioned the phases of cell division, that helped give me an idea as to what they were talking about. But how the scientists found out about this new protein was incredible; I'm really glad that they had found out about it, because now they can put money into finding ways to help reduce the amount of lives taken from cancer and related things each year by a lot. I never would have given thought to how a certain protein would aid in the way that centromeres would split, I always thought that ever since we learned it it was just the way that the centromeres would function. And when there wasn't a correctly functioning centromere, it formed a cancerous cell. But now that they have found what aids in the splitting of centromeres and how that leads to normal cells, I'm glad that they can see what they can do to prevent the rise of cancer percentages.