Still Trying to Cure Cancer...

It's still a work in progress.  Nevertheless we're heading down the right path for our Tech Spec Review next week.  We have settle on a more focused project, rather than blindly attempting to cure all forms of cancer.  We decided to attack gastrointestinal cancer, being that the detection method would be much easier than other forms of internal cancer.  The exact signal is unknown at the moment, but it will hopefully turn out to be much easier and less painful than the previous detection method of sticking scope down the patient's throat.

Our method revolves around the wnt pathway.  One main issue with this is attempting to delocalize the signal given off by one cell, to many, to allow for the patient to more easily detect whether or not they have cancer.  In other words, we need to find a method for the signal to be amplified from the original cell.

This is just one of the many problems we must confront when dealing with such a complex biological pathway.  Cancer sucks, and we're attempting to find not a way to fight it, but to recognize it.  This way, it can be more efficiently and accurately treated in the future.  I'm really looking forward towards how this project will turn out next Thursday; as of now it has a lot of promise.  Also, turtles are cool.