Understanding Cancer

This post is a shameless plug!  My brother is going to run his first marathon, the Baxters Loch Ness Marathon on the 5th of October 2008. He is raising money for CLIC Sargent in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire. CLIC Sargent support a nurse and a social worker at the Royal Aberdeen Childrents Hospital. [...]

If you read any of the scientific reports on cancer you will probably come across p53. The p stands for protein and the 53 is its size. One way of working out the size of a protein is to run it on a gel, and p53 shows up at the 53 kDa (kiloDalton) size. [...]