This chapter begins with an explanation of the mechanism that ensures adequate viability for healthy cells. The reader is given an explanation of the term "telomere" and its significance for the protection of chromosome ends and learns how the gradual physiological...
It may sound surprising, but not only the birth of a cell through division, but also its death and dying in multicellular organisms follows a perfect and pre-formed plan. Therefore, this type of death is called "programmed" cell death, and its best known and probably...
In Chapter 3, the book reaches its first climax. It's a chapter dedicated to speed. First, that associated with the division of tumor cells, and then that associated with our lives in modern society. In both cases to the detriment of its ruthless proponents. ...
In Chapter 2 you will learn, among other things, what cancer is, how this disease is defined and which features distinguish tumor cells from healthy cells. You will also learn that cancer is a disease that only affects multicellular organisms. The risk of its...
We rarely realize it, but the body of each of us is a wonderful creation of nature. It consists of a complex community of cells that number more than ten thousand times the number of people living on this planet. They have a lot in common: the basic structural...