Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by fnl on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @07:10PM
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Epigenetics is the word you're looking for here. And probably some healthy dose of metabolomics. Cancer is way more complex than "just" changes in the genetic code.
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Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by gmarx on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:57PM
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I don't think so. I'm sure there are epigenetic effects in cancer but I'm also pretty sure that cancers develop new mutations as they proceed. Ones that fool the immune system or chemotherapy agents get selected for and drive the cancer forward