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Soooo... I ended up publishing a paper on Thursday as a joint-first author where HPV-associated tumours (almost all of cervical cancer, a large fraction of tonsillar, penile, vulval and anal cancers) get their mutations from... http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(14)00387-8.pdf Abstract ...

I'm wondering what are the benefits of being cancer prone? Is it something we picked up from virus dna, that has become adopted in the genome of species? Not necessarily - we basically suffer from the inability of being able to repair mutations - now this can be a good thing because it generates di...

I often get asked what cancer is when people find out I do cancer research for a living and the whys and the wherefores thereof inevitably follow in conversation. The complexities of the disease often mirror the complexities of the bodies they plague and therefore I decided it might be good to get a...

The Flynn Effect, on the other hand, was based on empirical testing, but was able to meet requirement one also, since IQ is known to be heavily dependent on learning. It is easy to show mechanisms by which learning is increasing IQ. Actually the evidence is pointing out that IQ is not heavily depen...

NO!

Squeezing cultures of breast cancer cells induces reversion - squeezing breasts does not.
http://exploreable.wordpress.com/2012/1 ... than-this/

Ronja wrote:Ah, that may very well be! An interesting bus ride it was.

Aye

I think you heard it from me on the coach, Ronja, while I was also nattering on about nematomorph hairworms.

Coursera! ( www.coursera.org )

They've got a superb range of courses.

Udacity might be another.

The way this has been reported in the popular science is one infested with utter balderdash.

Here's what I've been getting up to. Having found a way to target a protein that is required for the protein produced by a gene that is overexpressed in HPV positive cancers to function, I subsequently managed to establish it can slow down how quickly HPV positive cancer cells can migrate. Unfortuna...

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:GFL, I would be following your work with intense interest if I could understand even one word in ten.

I could always take the time to explain more lucidly. Just ask

Does The wiki on Rudolf Breuss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Breuss tell you something you did not know already? To actual doctors here... in what state would a normal person be on a regimen of juices and tea ? (assuming enough sugar in them that they won't starve altogether) GFL, you evaluat...

'ere you go, Kiki. http://www.cam-cancer.org/CAM-Summaries ... es-it-work

I got passed up by a lot of the details, but I'm really glad there are people like you doing stuff like that, GfL! :td: :+1: It's all still microscopic witchcraft to me, but it's amazing stuff! And I love the youtube animation of the molecules etc. it's a completely alien world, - I almost expected...

hadespussercats wrote:Does being fat really increase your risk of getting certain cancers? If so, why? And how fat are we talking, to see a significant increase in risk?

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/fact ... sk/obesity