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Stem cells can bite you in the ass by shminux2006-11-20 22:33:21
  That article taught me more about... by RetiQlum2 2006-11-20 22:51:13
...stem cells than anything else I've read.

Postulate: Cancer starts with stem cells.

I could never understand how cancer started; the chances of a random bit of radiation knocking out just the right bit of a fully grown cell is incredibly low. However with stem cells, which are designed to turn into different kinds of cells, it seems far higher.

This is just speculation of course. I am not even close to being a biologist and claim no knowledge of these things.

I have no idea what this would mean in the grand scheme of things.
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    Hmmm. It just so happens that ... by run.dll2006-11-20 23:17:55
    Not all stem cells are equal. by vectorz2006-11-20 23:29:24
      Problems with your problems... by raptillicus2006-11-20 23:45:06
        They didn't say stem cells caused the cancer by vectorz2006-11-21 00:18:25

 

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