Mechanisms of Disease Simplifyied

Simplify, Simplify, Thoreau said. Despite the tremendous advances in knowledge about biochemistry and cells, the hunt for a cure to cancer is not always quickly helped by the flood of new information.

You might boil down the questions to: Are alleles the symptom or the source? Research on tumor cells in recent decades has often seemed to be a hurdling cataloging effort that leads the research into a a maze of varied tumorous cells cancers, with alluring multifarious questions, but no single answers. The pot of gold that such exciting research betokened could give way to a nagging despair.

Finding more phenotypes, Is this the best way to solve this problem?

Perhaps say Doctors Hahn and Weinberg of Boston, to understand the mechanisms of this disease called cancer, attention should focus closer to the trunks than the limbs and leaves of the problem. They have proposed a simplified scheme for understanding the transformation of cells from normal to malignant. This is a typical method used to reconfigure problems for stumped problem solvers. Let’s hope it bears happy fruit.

Last update: 4/12/2003; 11:47:39 AM.