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Growth factor receptors and oncogenes
Process of chromosome translocator
Development of cancer

The reasons why cancer develops are complex and varied. Medical scientists are beginning to unravel the molecular basis for this common disease with a view to eventually controlling it

IMAGINE the Earth as a single “body”, in which the people form the individual working parts. Each person would have a function that contributed both to the running of the constituent “organs” (the countries) and to the day-to-day operation of the body as a whole.

Such global cooperation would require intricate coordination between each and every individual. Detailed regulations would control each person’s activities. Close supervision of reproduction would be…

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