Let’s suppose you were interested in developing drugs to preventepigenetic changes that may contribute to cancer. What cellularproteins would be the target of your drugs? What possible sideeffects might your drugs cause?

Q: Can we treat cancer by restoring tumor suppressor function such as mutated p53 or pRb?  If so, how…

A: The process by which a cell gives rise to two identical daughter cells is referred to as cell…

Q: How can a defect in p53 gene contribute to cancer development?

A: Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells which tend to proliferate in an uncontrolled way and, in some…

Q: What causes the majority of the mutations found in human melanomas and lung cancer?

A: DNA is the chemical in each cells that makes up the genes and some genes control when cells grow,…

Q: Bishop and Varmus’s experiment was a landmark work in cancer biology. What was the question facing…

A: Normal cells become abnormal when they divide uncontrollably and have the potential to invade nearby…

Q: Why is this system promising in curing cancer and genetic diseases? What are some of the…

A: Introduction Gene therapy involves changing the genetic instructions within a person's cells to…

Q: If cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease, how might an environmental factor such as smoking…

A: Tumor is a mass of tissues. It may be benign or malignant. The cellular growth that occurs when the…

Q: You have  a newly plant extract and you want to know if the extract can possibly cause cancer in…

A: Carcinogenesis means the mechanism of induction of tumours and the agents that cause tumours are…

Q: What are 3 effects of Stem Cell Treatment to a person? Explain each answer in your own words.

A: A stem cell transplantation, also known as a bone marrow transplant, is a medical procedure that…

Q: Explain how Epigenetics are related with Cancer ?

A: Answer- Epigenetics is the change in the gene expression without changing the sequence of the DNA.

Q: Explain the role of epigenetic alterations in cancer ?

A: Genes are the hereditary unit in an organism and are passed on from the parental generation to the…

Q: Why are cancers considered to be clonal in origin? O A They are considered clonal in origin because…

A: Cancer- It is a group of diseases that is commonly related to the uncontrolled proliferation of…

Q: Insulin is a peptide hormone encoded by the INS gene, which is on chromosome 11. Insulin is produced…

A: The hormone insulin is required by the body to reduce the level of blood glucose. The pancreatic…

Q: solving Peto’s paradox the key to cancer prevention?

A: In 1977, British epidemiologist Richard Peto reasoned that the cells in large bodied and long-lived…

Q: Briefly, why is drug resistant cancer not as big a problem as drug-resistant bacteria?

A: Chemotherapy uses Multi-drug resistance (MDR) to kill the cancer cells and it is considered one of…

Q: What are some examples of genes involved in cancer?

A: Cancer is a clinical condition in which there occurs abnormal cell division leading to the formation…

Q: What are the two external barriers and two risks that might potentially impact the cancer program’s…

A: The success of a cancer program can be influenced by a variety of factors. External barriers and…

Q: What is a disadvantage of adult stem cells over embryonic stem cells?

A: Special human cells that have the capability to develop into wide-ranging types of cells in the…

Q: List examples of potential uses of stem cells to treat human diseases.

A: Stem cells are the raw cells which can divide and multiply into all specialized cell of the body.…

Q: What is the debate about between President Bush and President Obama regarding Stem Cells?

A: Obama's move overturns an order signed by President Bush in 2001 that barred the National Institutes…

Q: How Mutations Cause Cancer Phenotypes?

A: The medical condition of cancer is generally characterized by the presence of a cluster of cells…

Q: Question 8 (1 point) In peas, long stem (A) is dominant over short stem (a). A heterozygous, long…

A: Dominant alleles are those alleles whose phenotypic traits are expressed in the offspring over the…

Q: Do more mutations necessarily mean that more cancer-causing genes are faulty? Why or why not?

A: Biotechnology is a wide range of studies where it uses its techniques with biological systems to…

Q: How would you describe the three phases of biotransformation?

A: Biotransformation is the alteration of drug molecules by the animal cell.

Q: How do stem cells retain this capacity, and can we harness it to cure debilitating diseases?

A: Stem cells: Stem cells are the cells that have the potential to develop into different types in the…

Q: Are all pluripotent stem cells created equal, however?

A: Pluripotent cells are capable of repeated division to form most or all of the cell types but cannot…

Q: Hi, can you elaborate about these two concepts: 1) Can telomere inhibition be good cancer…

A: Cancer is a condition in which cells proliferate abnormally and infiltrate, erode, and kill healthy…

Q: How oncogenes contribute to cancer?

A: Cancer:       It is a disease where cells divide abnormally and damage other cells. There are…

Q: Drivers are mutations that drive the cancer process; passengers are mutations that arise randomly in…

A: Cancer is the uncontrolled division or growth of the cells. The causes of cancer differ widely but…

Q: Cells in a tumor contain mutated copies of a particular gene that promotes tumor growth. Gene…

A: An oncogene helps in control cell division and  contributes to cancer progression whereas a tumor…

Q: Which of the following statements about cancer is correct? A. Cancer stem cells can make tumors…

A: Cancer is a disease that occurs when the cells in the body start dividing abnormally. They go out of…

Q: How gene therapy or cell therapy can help cure diseases? What kinds of diseases do gene and cell…

A: Since you have posted a question with multiple sub-parts, we will solve the first three subparts for…

Q: how do tumor suppressor genes and proto-oncogenes causes cancer?

A: Tumor suppressor genes- These are the normal genes and they are responsible for regulating cell…

Q: What is the difference between a proto-oncogene and a tumor suppressor gene?  How can mutations in…

A: Proto-oncogenes are normally switched off. But when they get activated they cause tumors. On the…

Q: How can I study a protein cancer cells?

A: Cancer cells , the uncontrolled growth of the cell, as the growth rate is abnormal, they lost the…

Q: 1). Tumor suppressor proteins monitor DNA and detect damage. Some cancers evade this detection by…

A: Tumor suppressor proteins helps to control cell growth and activated in response to DNA damage and…

Q: How tumor-suppressor mutations contribute to cancer?

A: Cancer - Cancer is a type of disease in which cells divide in an uncontrolled manner. The cells…