Mice might be responsible for cancer

[UpInArms]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/776646.cms

WASHINGTON: A new study conducted by researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York has revealed that a rodent virus might play a role in the development of breast cancer, reports Nature .

According to the lead author, Stella Melana, "This doesn't mean that the virus causes the cancer but it means there may be a link." The DNA sequences were almost identical to those of a virus called MMTV, which causes breast cancer in mice.

The team looked for MMTV-like viruses in breast tumour biopsies taken from women living in six different countries. Over 70 per cent of Tunisian samples contained fragments of the virus, compared with around 35 per cent of samples from the United States, Italy, Australia and Argentina, and less than 1 per cent of samples from Vietnam.

The researchers say that this roughly corresponds to the distribution of the virus-carrying house mouse, Mus domesticus, which is extremely common in North Africa but less so in the United States and elsewhere.

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[MikeG]

1. I knew it was the little fuckers' fault.

[xchrom]

2. yeah -- what mike said.

[Piperay]

3. uh, yeah

right. :eyes:

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. The mice hate our freedoms.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. dare i say it?

is it the titmouse?

edit spelling and i know this is a serious subject

[Justitia]

6. yes, it is serious, but gawd that was funny!

although I believe the "titmouse" is actually a bird. :+

[dflprincess]

8. <groan>

On the other hand, this plays into the fantasy I've had about rodents and smoking...I keep visualizing the surgeon general announcing those damn rats would have died of cancer or heart disease no matter what they were breathing in. :smoke:

[DemoTex]

7. Shit house mouse!

Who knew?

[CO Liberal]

9. I'm Worried For My Cat

But how do you give a cat a mammogram???

:shrug:

[wackywill]

15. very carefully

[newyawker99]

17. Hi wackywill!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Mice and your polio vaccine

I got it.... did you? I did get quite a chuckle out of the original and subsequent posts btw.... good job.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996116
Many millions more people than previously thought might have been given polio vaccine contaminated with a monkey virus linked to cancer.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. Doh...

That subject shoulda been.... Chimps... and your polio vaccine.... speaking of chimps.....

[daleo]

12. Well, humans are always giving cancer to mice

I suppose turnabout is fair play.

[Demonaut]

13. should be " Mice Strike Back"

lol

[D-Notice]

14. This proves it:

Disney are evil!

[coda]

16. LOL, I was sure this was going to be a headline from the Onion. nt

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