A short story by the Weizmann Institute of Science's Peter Tsvetkov and Tel-Aviv University's Sharon Dekel posted at LabLit this week details a personified p53's visit with a "gene therapist." The transcription factor, it seems, is at odds with his roles in cancer and apoptosis. "When I was first discovered they accused me of being oncogenic, accused me of supporting cancer. It took them many years to understand that I am the good guy, that I'm a tumor suppressor.