• Question: have you had any luck with finding something which tells you how cancer works

    Asked by 697actj47 to Matt on 10 Jun 2017.
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      Matthew Lee answered on 10 Jun 2017:


      At the moment I’m investigating a protein called COX-2 (you should google it and read the wikipedia page it’s quite good) as it is involved in colorectal cancer. What we think is that COX-2 is turned on and off by another protein and we are doing experiments to show that this is true. In fact i did an experiment on Thursday that shows it does, but we need to do some more to show that we aren’t seeing it COX-2 be turned off/on by a different protein. Hopefully we will finish these experiments soon and then we can publish the paper so other scientists can read it and then use it to inform their experiments.

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