Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several genes encoding DNA-binding proteins that can promote the development of various cancers when present at high concentrations.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Stanford University team used a common antibiotic to turn off a gene called Myc, which is known to trigger cancer.
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The Stanford University team used a common antibiotic to turn off a gene called Myc, which is known to trigger cancer.
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The Stanford University team used a common antibiotic to turn off a gene called Myc, which is known to trigger cancer.
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The results which will be published this week in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA journal, describe in detail the complex interaction between the Myc aka Cell Death.
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The most aggressive forms are fuelled by the build up of a protein called Myc in the cells.
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The most aggressive forms are fuelled by the build up of a protein called Myc in the cells.
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Looking in tumours that are driven by a faulty oncogene called Myc (which we'll talk more about later), the results looked initially very promising.
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'A cancer causing gene, such as Myc, regulates many distinct cellular processes, and that can make it very difficult to tease apart which ones are the most important for the cancer to progress, 'said Barna.
India eNews 2009
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Nature shows how a cancer-promoting gene called "Myc" controls its use.
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The Myc down-regulated cells are called Myc Generation of stable MYC overexpressing cell clones (called Myc
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