Understanding the physiological mechanisms that cause or, as in this case, prevent genetic instability is a basic question in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine which is of vital importance in the research against cancer, given that genetic instability is a distinctive feature
of tumorous cells.
Not exact matches
Because the different cancer
cells within a
tumorous tissue also develop different modes
of defense against therapeutic measures, the treatment
of patients is extraordinarily difficult.
In previous experiments, Isacson and his colleagues had found that undifferentiated embryonic stem
cells, when injected into animals, seemed eager to become neurons; the problem was they frequently grew out
of control and formed
tumorous growths.
Both
of these benefits result in apoptosis (
cell death) for cancerous and
tumorous cells.
In
tumorous cells an error has occurred in this script, allowing the
cells to grow out
of control and evade the immune system policemen in charge
of preventing it.