Body cells replicate periodically (through mitosis, or cell division), but normal cells respond to their surrounding cells and replicate only to replace other cells. Sometimes a genetic mutation ...

Over time, these cells become increasingly resistant to the controls that maintain normal tissue — and as a result, they divide more rapidly than their progenitors and become less dependent on ...

It usually starts when a single cell acquires a series of mutations, usually one after another, that collectively change a once-normal cell into a cancerous cell that divides uncontrollably and ...

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The Cancer & Cell Biology Program provides broad, interdisciplinary training in the fundamentals of normal cell function and cancer, emphasizing a wide spectrum of genomic analyses to growth, invasion ...

Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude serious disease, physicians in all specialties continue to behave as if it did. To assess whether a ...

Usually, both genes make a normal hemoglobin protein. When someone inherits two mutant copies of the hemoglobin gene, the abnormal form of the hemoglobin protein causes the red blood cells to lose ...

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