Gee, ya think?

Scientists discovered a new gene, that when mutated, causes other genes to become corrupt and form into cancer. Scientists call this new mutated gene, "POKEMON".

"The investigators confirmed Pokemon's cancer-causing role by inserting the oncogene into mice. Pokemon does its damage by repressing the function of other proteins, including a tumor suppressor called ARF. The mice developed aggressive, fatal forms of lymphoma. In further work, using a technique called tissue micro arrays to study tumor samples from people with many types of cancer, they confirmed that Pokemon is present in very high levels in certain types of B-cell and T-cell lymphomas. They also found that tumors with high levels of Pokemon protein were much more likely to be aggressive."

And to think that 10 years ago when Pokemania was in full swing and all parents across North America called the little buggers "The New Cancer!" were right all along. That'll take a while to sink in.

Another funny thing is that when scientists are naming a newly found anything, they usually break down what Latin or periodical or whatever 7 syllable name to give it something easy to call it by, but this time it looks like they go way out of their way to make "Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic" or POK(what???) into Pokemon.

Nintendo had this to say, "Huh, well how about that. We're responsible for cancer."