Cell Death as a Driving Force in Glioblastoma(news.feinberg.northwestern.edu)

23 pointsby gmays11 days ago1 comment

djmips10 days ago
That seems rather grim that killing part of a tumor accelerated its outward growth. I wonder if cancers are considered on the continuum of life like viruses? Our bodies are a bunch of individual cells that have been yoked together in a very complex way. Cancer seems to sometimes be an internal misguided revolution or throwback maybe.
- type010 days ago
  It's more akin to infinite loop since cells divide without appropriate boundaries. In cell division there's defined stages, normal cells should go into resting stage G0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G0_phase if they don't you have a tumour and when more checks and balances go awry that might lead to cancer
- m304710 days ago
  There is a transmissible dog tumor which originated with handwave wolves. Apparently there are possibly others. (TIL!)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_...