Gene therapy study takes aim at prostate cancer
...well. (RTVP stands for related to testes-specific, vespid and pathogenesis proteins.) The RTVP-1 gene was isolated in the laboratory of Dr. Timothy Thompson, also a professor of urology at BCM. As Thompson began to study the gene, he found that it was a target for a tumor suppressor gene called p53, whic......y of Illinois have conducted a genetic analysis of vespid wasps that revises the vespid family tree and challenges long-held views about how the wasps social behaviors evolved. In the s...