How do healthy cells turn cancerous? Their DNA gradually accumulates errors. Most of these errors aren’t important, but occasionally they stop the cell from working properly. They might cause a cell to grow out of control – and this can lead to cancer.
How some rediscovered 75-year-old research on maize helps us understand cancer
Barbara McClintock published a paper describing the breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle in 1939. She…