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What has been the progress on cell differentiation, migration and apoptosis as possible models for cancer therapy?

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What has been the progress on cell differentiation, migration and apoptosis as possible models for cancer therapy?

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The possibilities are exciting. For example, cell differentiation is a new target in oncology. The argument is that all cells differentiate from stem cells and this has led to the belief that, at some point of time, due to certain faults, cells change their basic features and proliferate. So, researchers are now finding ways to push the cells towards further differentiation and the more the cell is differentiated the more it loses its potency to proliferate and more it gains the ability to do what it is supposed to do. The other area that is gaining prominence is apoptosis. There are two ways of defining tumours. The conventional definition of a tumour is a rapidly proliferating cell mass. Conversely, a tumour can also be defined as a mass wherein apoptosis is tremendously decreased. So, a lot of interest is generated to develop agents that induce apoptosis. At the end of each chromosome, there are telomeres. We know that length of telomeres has some influence on the life cycle of a ce

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