The blueprint of a rogue cell
Reading the enemy's master code
Reprogramming the body's defenders
The next frontier of precision weapons
007skaty Metastasis Pathways
The collagen tracks, the collagen tracks They point the way out.
007skaty Billions of daily cell divisions can fail, creating either localized benign tumors or invasive malignant tumors that spread throughout the body.
007skaty Genetic typos in TP53 disable the cellular brakes that normally stop tumor growth.
007skaty Navigate tiny tunnels to discover how scientists block cancer from spreading.
Dinosaur cancer: Fossil evidence shows that a Centrosaurus dinosaur living 76 million years ago suffered from aggressive bone cancer, proving cancer is ancient.
The complete set of genetic material present in a cell or organism. In 2008, researchers successfully sequenced the first complete genome of an acute myeloid leukemia patient.
Approximately how many cells divide in a healthy adult human body every single day?
Which scientists won a Nobel Prize in 1989 for discovering oncogenes, the genes that promote cancer growth?
What is the name of the process where tumors recruit new blood vessels to supply themselves with oxygen?
According to researcher Judah Folkman's 1971 hypothesis, what is the maximum size a tumor can reach without its own blood supply?
Through which two primary biological transport networks do cancer cells travel to colonize other organs?