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Can someone provide some sort of overview as to how these sort of pathways, or on a even more detailed level, specific protein receptors for certain diseases, a

• danwills 3y ago
  I'm not qualified to properly respond but I've accepted what Michael Levin says about what cancer is, basically when cells become 'deaf' to the tissues around them which would normally either (by 'telling' them) make a cell behave as one of these cells should, or end up destroying the invader. Cancer cells ignore the message and behave like single -celled organisms instead. Cancer doesn't have just one component that can be detected by testing though, multiple different signalling and communication mechanisms all have to be broken at once. There's many paths that can lead to it and it's overall extremely varied as a disease iiuc. Identifying these pathways would probably be by genetic sequencing, protein folding/behaviour analysis and extensive in-test-tube experimentation with living cell cultures.. but I'm not in the field so I don't really know. Maybe there's a voktage-gradient-memory-based (see Michael Levin's work) way to detect this type of misbehavior too? That'd be really cool!