
Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Next Slide Goes Wrong
P53 is responsible for errors in P53, a responsible for about 50% of all cancers based on the sort of current understanding we have of genomes. So if you have a germline mutation in p53, which is what Bracker gives you, then this is one of the things that can go wrong. The other thing is when, when the chromosomes are pulling apart, then a bit of one chromosome can get attached to another. And it just, my, oh, you like my, you're a cat. My commissar showed too much mercy. In some cases, what will happen is that the, the sort of this will get recognized and the cell will be told to
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