A new can of worms

Just when I thought I'd get to submit my paper for publication, we opened a new can of worms. Last week I went to our collaborator's lab to do a couple of experiments dealing with measuring the activity of certain proteins in our tumors. As it turns out, the results were very striking and unique! Because of this, and the recent publication of some other studies dealing with our protein in the context of a novel pathway for tumorigenesis, we've decided to pursue the findings. Larry's thoughts are two-fold: we could either publish what we have now (my preference) or do these few more experiments to nail down a mechanism and make one giant paper out of it. I think he's kind of leaning towards publishing now and then making a second paper with mechanism data, but it's hard for me to tell for sure.

I'll keep you posted!