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This sticky end is a clue to cancer’s causes

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.
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4 Sep 2017

MDS, prognosis and chromosome analysis

The 14th July, is the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia’s annual National MDS Day. Myelodysplastic…
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18 Jul 2016

Why do we need chromosomes?

Most cells in our bodies contain 46 separate long DNA strings that spend…
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9 May 2016

Why do we need chromosomes?

Our DNA usually hangs around in the nucleus – 46 long strings…
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23 Mar 2015

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…
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30 Dec 2013

Eternal youth, cancer and telomeres

This is an edited version of a post in my blog –…
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28 Sep 2013
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