MicroRNA and CANCER METASTASIS

The most lethal property of cancer cells is that they grow and spread from one location in the body to another. The cancer cell spreading is called metastasis. What makes cancer cells grow and why do cancer cells spread? Robert Weinberg and friends have spent a lifetime askingthat question. It's the one million dollar question. People who unlock the secrets of cancer growth and metastasis( cancer cells spreading from one area to another) will have solved the greatest mystery in medicine and saved millions of lives.

Robert Weinberg, a professor at M.I.T, has spent his life studying cancer. He discovered the first oncogene. Weinberg says oncogenes, which cause cell growth to speed up are analogous to a stuck car accelerator pedal. Tumor suppressor genes are analogous to a car's brake lining.

In this radio interview, Weinberg discusses how and why cancer cells spread as well as his latest research on the role of microRNA (RNA is similar to DNA) in the spread of cancer cells.

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QUICKTIME VIDEO ROBERT WEINBERG EXPLAINS HIS LAB'S CANCER RESEARCH Lately, Weinberg and friends have published their findings that microRNA, small RNA molecules (RNA is similar to DNA but has a different component) are active in the control of metastasis. This is an easy to understand explanation by a top scientist who can also speak in plain English.

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