A newly-discovered organelle might be the key to better cancer medicines that prevent it from happening in the first place.
There is hope for patients that are suffering from Cancer, an almost always terminal disease that comes with no definitive cure at the moment. One of the possible cures that might prove better than current therapies is a newly-discovered organelle that might be the magic bullet. Scientists from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have stumbled upon it, and are probing and investigating the mystery organelle for the first time.
One of the problems of cellular division begins in the organelles, that should function well or have disastrous results for the host cells. An organelle is one of the oldest parts of the cell and regulates cell functions. Everything must go like clockwork, but sometimes things go awry and change will put a wrench in the cellular bio-machine. If this happens, it will cause mutation and changes that will be deadly and might kill the other cells by multiplying.
During the study, there were connections to the occurrence of cancerous growths in female breasts. Caused by the errors in dividing chromosomes as a result, giving doctors an option to choose better therapy for each patient. This discovery will be the key for doctors to adjust to specific treatments for all patients. One problem with the wrong treatment is that it will not work, and treatment should save the patient too. This is method gives better chances of prescribing the best treatment.
The researcher Todd Stukenberg, who was responsible for finding the disappearing anti-cancer organelle is hot on the chase to develop methods to check if chemotherapy is useful or another treatment is needed. Which makes it hard for most doctors treating cancer to get their patient, 100% cured without relapses.
Observing the organelles' behavior is like a disappearing act, it appears when needed. Like a security guard keeping check and the good chromosomes are allowed inside the cell. When sorting all the genetic material is done, the security organelle leaves its post. It is so elusive and with Stukenberg's discovery, it gives hope to curing cancer once and for all. It is visible yet invisible the accidental discovery is like a physicist finding an axiom.
Comparable to a gel-like organic substance that cell components should enter or exit, but traps the most essential substances needed like a sorting hub. Everything points to what is a protein needed by the cell to synthesize materials to remain healthy. Without trapping and ejecting, then synthesizing the right protein cell beginning the march to deadly cancer. Without organelles that selective in choosing the proteins, cells will lose the capacity to control proteins and enzymes to keep the cell healthy.
The previous discovery of cellular mitosis and these come and go regulating organelles, will improve how researchers are learning how to prevent cancer. Call this newly discovered organelle as the fixer and limits the mistakes in chromosome division. By controlling the genetic material sorted out, which prevents cancerous cells from changing healthy cells. Cancer cell attack and replicate without these anti-cancer organelles, and hope lies in producing more of them to combat and help the host cells recover.
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