Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Extra Chromosomes in Cancers Can Be Good or Bad
February 25, 2020
February 25, 2020
COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, Feb. 25 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news:
Cancer cells are notorious for their genetic disarray. A tumor cell can contain an abundance of DNA mutations and most have the wrong number of chromosomes. A missing or extra copy of a single chromosome creates an imbalance called aneuploidy, which can skew the activity of hundreds or thousands of genes. As cancer progresses, so does aneuploidy. Some advanced tumors can harbor cell . . .
Cancer cells are notorious for their genetic disarray. A tumor cell can contain an abundance of DNA mutations and most have the wrong number of chromosomes. A missing or extra copy of a single chromosome creates an imbalance called aneuploidy, which can skew the activity of hundreds or thousands of genes. As cancer progresses, so does aneuploidy. Some advanced tumors can harbor cell . . .