Sentences with phrase «whether aneuploidy»

These findings also may have answered a long - standing question about whether aneuploidy is a cause or effect of cancer, leaving researchers free to pursue the question of how.

Not exact matches

In the new study, published yesterday in PLOS Biology, Heitman and colleagues set out to explore whether genetically identical, unisexually reproducing C. neoformans cells were using aneuploidy to generate offspring that differed from themselves.

Given the rapid succession of generations in yeast, we can use it as a model organism — and study the mechanisms of aneuploidy in much greater detail to find out whether we can derive from it new approaches for diagnosing and treating human diseases.»

Aneuploidy is found in most solid tumours, but it remains unclear whether it is the cause or the consequence of tumorigenesis.