Linda and Murphy, the Prince of Darkness
Clemson
University is the second largest university in South Carolina, and the hardest
to get into. This does not place it in
the top dozen universities academically, however, nor even the top
hundred. You usually associate Clemson
with ferocious football teams and pretty cheer leaders, not with scientific
research. Nevertheless . . .
One of the
most desired results in the battle against ovarian cancer would certainly be a
means to detect it early. I have written
about this many times, but with precious little good news to report. Thus it is with an internal “whoopee” that I
can report that Clemson scientists may have made a breakthrough. You probably know that cells excrete little “garbage
bags”, called exosomes, which they require the bloodstream to eliminate. Well, these Clemson folks seem to have
determined that, in early OVCA victims, these exosomes contain scraps of
telltale RNA and other stuff that give the presence of tumor, or even incipient
tumor, away. If so, and if a feasible
test can be developed, this would be a huge step forward. Read their little ditty for the details.
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