[Dean's World] Dean: "Mix-Up Chromosomes" & Cancer

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Posted by Dean:
"Mix-Up Chromosomes" & Cancer
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1158678497.shtml


   It seems gallingly cutesy, but "Mix-Up Chromosomes" Newsweek has
   dubbed the aneuploidy hypothesis of cancer causation. I suppose I
   shouldn't complain; for a popular science explanation that's as quick
   a summary of the idea I can think of.

   And, as Dean's World readers learned 2 years ago, the aneuploidy
   hypothesis has been making major waves in cancer research, with quite
   a few of the world's foremost cancer researchers and geneticists
   acknowledging acknowledging that the hypothesis holds a very great
   deal of promise. Indeed, that's why Harvey Bialy wrote [1]this book
   which we've discussed more than once: because, as the former
   scientific editor at Nature Biotechnology, it was obvious to Harvey
   several years ago that the aneuploidy theory was going to be making
   major waves soon. And indeed it has.

   You can [2]read Newsweek's accounting here. It's really quite
   dumbed-down but close enough for Newsweek I guess. When reading it,
   bear in mind that by the time a story like this makes it into a
   publication like Newsweek, it's already been understood by researchers
   in the field for several years.

   It's kind of amusing to see how they put Peter Duesberg's name as far
   toward the end of the article as they possibly could, and had to quote
   anonymous researchers criticizing him. His name should have been at
   the top of the article. But Harvey said people would do everything
   they could to keep Peter's name out of it. For this appears to be a
   growing problem in the entire field of peer review and the grant
   application process: silence anyone who makes waves.

   But they're not going to be able to do it here. If this new theory
   bears out, Peter's going to be short-listed for a Nobel--again.

   If you've got a strong background in biology (grad level, I would
   suggest), you might want to [3]read this book.

References

   1. http://www.amazon.com/Oncogenes-Aneuploidy-AIDS-Scientific-Duesberg/dp/1556435312/sr=1-2/qid=1158678143/ref=sr_1_2/104-3897361-3280725?ie=UTF8&s=books/deansworld01-20
   2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14757547/site/newsweek/page/4/
   3. http://www.amazon.com/Oncogenes-Aneuploidy-AIDS-Scientific-Duesberg/dp/1556435312/sr=1-2/qid=1158678143/ref=sr_1_2/104-3897361-3280725?ie=UTF8&s=books/deansworld01-20