Cancerous

... that those infamous telomeres are there to protect you from your own cells - that is, they prevent cells to uncontrollably divide and become cancerous in case they lose some other control growth mechanisms. After all, when there is cancer, also the telomere shortening ceases. So how about ...

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... has had time to find ways for our bodies to prevent the accumulation of these cells. A bit like our body kills most cells that are about to turn cancerous. That being said, I must admit that this is an interesting theory, because our genome certainly contains a whole lot of genetic material that ...

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... Help me please. :? Ras oncogen is involved in various human and animal cancers. Some DNAs have been isolized from a number of normal tissues and cancerous tissues. i. Cellular DNA is treated with EcoRI ii. The DNA then is treated with gel electrophoresis and then moved to membrane nitrocellulose. ...

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... past when living organisms were mostly single-celled, it seems that some percentage of them must have developed into something resembling a cancerous cell, just by chance mutations. Since these cells would be divide rapidly, it seems they would outstripe production of "normal" ...

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... the switch and the interon being the chemical (tRNA, m-RNA) that disappears and causes the switch to shut off. Now, it is hypothesized that a cancerous cell begins when the interon, or a chemical/substance biochemically similar, is reintroduced into the cell and reactivates the switch. So, ...

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