Kubiak, like McArthur, will return See page 13 Imui is also popular facials said theyarcl re and more said his hotelsellsil x-cause ofthepopj ?;tt itas in Austin, | Classical music’s best in Round Top See At Ease The Battalion Serving the University community cm )l, 76 No. 38 LISPS 045360 32 Pages In 2 Sections College Station, Texas Friday, October 22, 1982 every CE TEA My. 30 Researchers link Cancer to genes United Press International IICAGO — Cancer researchers “working around the clock” to lue the discovery by a Philadel- iia scientist of some of the strongest Bence yet linking a form of cancer Abasic units of heredity. B)r. Carlo M. Croce of the Wistar pstitute of Anatomy and Biology >iind what may be the way a certain Ine is activated to turn normal cells ito malignant ones. Kroce reported his findings at a fiposium sponsored by the Univer- ■ of Chicago and discussed the fork Wednesday in a telephone in n-view. iThe development could lead, in ■ral years, to new ways to treat can- ferjsaid Dr. Janet D. Rowley, sympo- lum coordinator and an expert on B>rmalities in chromosomes, the within cells that carry the “It is very exciting,” she said. “It’s one step in a long process of under standing how a normal cell becomes a malignant cell.” Croce studied hereditary material known as DNA from a patient with Burkitt’s lymphoma, a cancer involv ing lymphoid cells most commonly found in African children. He found a gene known to cause cancer in chickens had moved from one chromosome to another. He also found the cancer gene had recom bined with an active gene involved in the production of immunoglobulin, a protein active in the body’s defenses against disease. Croce said his laboratory has evi dence the cancer gene was activated and produced a protein. He said the next step is to find out how that gene product works and once that is understood, he said re searchers will attempt to find a way to shut off the apparent cancer-causing mechanism. “We are all excited,” he said. “We are working around the clock.” A scientist from Harvard Universi ty reported at the same symposium Croce’s finding had been confirmed in the Harvard lab. Dr. George Khoury, chief of the laboratory of molecular virology at the National Cancer Institute outside of Washington, said Croce’s research was significant in the effort to under stand how cancer genes are turned on, and possibly how they can be turned off. “The assumption is that the move ment of this in some way turns on this gene,” Dr. Rowley said. “And it’s this turning on that may be related to the cancerous nature of the cell.” EM [ | CK[ Committee considers acuity senate’s role savings, oft the reg- fo\\ owing. v, Enchilada o Dinner, r. Summer in Salad, t\\\o Dinner, , T&co Salad. and save \