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.
MDS, prognosis and chromosome analysis
The 14th July, is the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia’s annual National MDS Day. Myelodysplastic…
Why do we need chromosomes?
Most cells in our bodies contain 46 separate long DNA strings that spend…
Why do we need chromosomes?
Our DNA usually hangs around in the nucleus – 46 long strings…
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…
Eternal youth, cancer and telomeres
This is an edited version of a post in my blog –…