Brit Press mostly, so far: A Kentucky-engineered mouse that doesn’t get cancer

Published: November 28, 2007, 1:22 pm

This does intrigue. At the University of Kentucky College of Medicine researchers — reporting in the journal Cancer Research — say they added a gene for a prostate cancer-resisting protein into mice. It did more than they expected. The animals appear resistant to every tumor they try to implant in them. This is also a protein connected to cell death in Alzheimer’s. No word how the new mice do on that front. A press release dated yesterday is out from U.K., but so far most of the media action is in the UK. Stories: BBC with “supermouse” in the hed ; Telegraph (UK) Aislinn Simpson ; Daily Mail (UK) Fiona MacRae ; CBC (Canada) ; News.com (Australia) Annalise Walliker ; Grist for the Mill: U. Ky. Press Release (it says the gene, called Par-4, kills cancer cells but not normal cells. To quibble, as several news reports have it, it’s a protein encoded in the gene that does the job..) ; Lead U.Ky. researcher’s website ; Pic: It has something to do

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