Aggressive Prostate Cancer Caused by Gene Altering Virus

Posted on September 8, 2009 by David Oliver
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Bloomberg is reporting in "Prostate Cancer’s Worst Form Linked to Gene-Influencing Virus" that a virus linked to the most aggressive form of prostate cancer, the XMRV virus, may insert itself in a cell's genome setting up shop next to genes coding for cell growth and thereby leading to uncontrolled growth.


Daily the 20th century scientist's belief that nature is benign yields to the wisdom:

Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed
 

  - In Memoriam A.H.H. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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