p53 responds to DNA damage by killing the cell, as the article notes, in about half of cancers there are p53 mutations.
In other words, Cancer gets away with being a ‘high crime neighborhood’ because they ‘shot the local cop’. p53 being the local policeman in this scenario.
3 posted on 03/29/2011 11:03:03 AM PDT by allmendream
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In other words, Cancer gets away with being a ‘high crime neighborhood’ because they ‘shot the local cop’. p53 being the local policeman in this scenario.
Worse, it says the mutated p53 goes Quisling to aid the cancerous tumor.