• Question: Is it possible that if you find out why they turn cancerous that you are able to make it become a cell that is super healthy?

    Asked by u12mussont to Lou on 18 Nov 2013.
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      Louise Brown answered on 18 Nov 2013:


      Yes!

      If we find out which cell signalling pathways are involved in cancer, we could maybe change these pathways (by changing the bits involved and bits that they bind to) and make a super cell!
      There are rats that don’t get cancer called naked mole rats, and scientists are studying these to find out why! (They are really really ugly, give them a google!!!)

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