Last week I blogged about some of the interesting papers I’d found on my latest troll through the medical papers (the ones I can get to anyway). One thing I left out, mostly because it didn’t fit with the topic at hand, were the papers I found where the researchers are studying HPS, but not so much for HPS’s sake. Several of the researchers were using the protein trafficking problem of HPS as a model to study cancer cells that don’t respond to typical cancer therapies. The science, as usual, was a bit beyond my humble understanding. I suppose the researchers are trying to better understand why certain types of cancer are resistant to therapy. There were several of these papers. In fact, last year a researcher from Germany studying cancer contacted the Network and asked if we could help him get some blood samples. After his research was looked at by some of our science folks, I volunteered some of my blood. If you could help a cancer researcher with a vile of blood, how could you refuse
Stories from the battle to cure Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome, and other observations about every day life