Sentences with phrase «abnormal cancer cell development»

This catabolic process helps the body rid itself of intracellar pathogens as well as abnormal cancer cell development.

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«The findings provide new insight into how cells faithfully transmit this organizational information as embryos develop, and into what goes wrong when cellular development goes awry, thereby giving rise to abnormal cell development and diseases such as cancer,» says senior study investigator Danny Reinberg, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at NYU Langone and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

When mutated, or not working properly, cells with abnormal tumor suppressor genes are more likely to grow out of control and lead to the development of cancer.

But thanks to the development of the Pap test — the simple test that detects abnormal cervical cells before cancer develops — cervical cancer is now much less common.