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When Cells Go Bad: Cells That Avoid Suicide May Become Cancerous |
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 When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, the cell usually kills itself to stem the genetic damage. But University of Utah biologists discovered how those cells can evade suicide and start down the path to cancer.
Details of how the process works someday may provide new ways to treat cancer.
The new study of fruit flies is the first to show in animals that losing just one telomere – the end of a chromosome – can lead to many abnormalities in a cell's chromosomes, which are strands of DNA that carry genes. Science Daily
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