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RedjackRyan
04-13-2006, 12:55 PM
Gary J. Gorbsky, Ph.D., a scientist with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division. The discovery could have important implications for the treatment of cancer, birth defects and numerous other diseases and disorders. Gorbsky's findings appear in the April 13 issue of the journal Nature. "No one has gotten the cell cycle to go backwards before now," said Gorbsky. "This shows that certain events in the cell cycle that have long been assumed irreversible may, in fact, be reversible." In the lab, Gorbsky and his OMRF colleagues were able to control the protein responsible for the division process, interrupt and reverse the event, sending duplicate chromosomes back to the center of the original cell, an event once thought impossible.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/omrf-rpn041006.php
Rkitko
04-14-2006, 02:06 AM
Wow, very interesting. Something to do with cytokines, eh? Things like this fascinate me. Thanks for posting it! :)
DaveM
04-14-2006, 11:57 AM
Just waiting for someone to realize that this could POTENTIALLY reverse a pregnancy and for all of the other idiots within earshot to start some mindless chant. And there will go some other lovely piece of basic research which could do so much for so many.

This world could benefit from George Bush being pregnant or having a terminal disease, don't you think?
RedjackRyan
04-17-2006, 09:15 AM
Wow, very interesting. Something to do with cytokines, eh? Things like this fascinate me. Thanks for posting it! :)


I don't pretend to fully understand this line of research, but i too find it fascinating. As with any scientific breakthrough there is potential for abuse, but also potential for great good to come from it.
Bat
04-23-2006, 09:10 PM
I just wonder if this isn't what happens when a mother animal of some species 'reabsorbs' a litter when the time is not right to produce babies?
(I think mice can do this.) It probably happens very early in the pregnancy when still within the first few hundred cell divisions, but I don't know that.