Sentences with phrase «lead to cancer happen»

Although it is often taught that the DNA mutations that lead to cancer happen at random, research suggests there are epigenetic triggers that may increase prevalence of DNA damage.

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Wanting to understand what happens under chronic inflammation conditions, a team of researchers led by Freddy Radtke at EPFL's Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) studied stem cells in the corneas of mice.

«This information yields new insights into how sperm stem cells function and develop under normal circumstances,» says the study's lead author Bradley Cairns, PhD, senior director of basic science at HCI and professor and chair of oncological sciences at the U of U. «We have built a very important framework we can now use to help us understand what happens when things go wrong, resulting in issues like infertility and cancer in men.»

Therefore, his team, led by postdoctoral fellow Gayatri Arun, set out to discover what would happen if mice that model human metastatic breast cancer were bred with the mice lacking Malat1.

For years, there has been speculation that Pten defects found in cancer patients also lead to the reshuffling of the cell's chromosomes, but it was unknown how that would happen and how it propels cancer growth.

Titia's studies have also informed us on what happens when telomeres are shortened or when their numbers are depleted, shedding a light on the processes that can lead to cancer.

With researchers increasingly interested in links between cancer and the microorganisms that call our body home, we take a look at what's happening in this field and ask leading figures if they think it will live up to the hype.

However, as often happens when friends team up, too much of them can be a bad thing — a cellular bully — leading to excess inflammation, damage, and even cancer.

Androgenic steroids are one day going to lead to the possible elimination of this man only cancer in the entire world and hopefully all the other forms of cancer in the world as well, which I think all who are reading this piece can agree on, would be one of the most amazing things that can ever happen in our lifetime.

There's a section of That Dragon Cancer where Amy and Ryan Green, the game's creators and lead characters, have to tell their two older sons exactly what's happening to their baby brother Joel.

We already know that sunburns lead to an increased risk of developing skin cancer and watching our sun exposure is key to keeping our skin and ourselves healthy, but even with the most diligent use of sunscreen, burns can still happen if you're outside long enough.