A deadly bargain: is cancer really less than immortality at the cellular level?

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: April 25, 1994| Author: Brownlee, Shannon; Watson, Traci | Copyright information

Cell biologist Calvin Harley and his team of scientists have made a promising discovery about the nature of cancer cells, and the research could lead to more effective cancer treatments. Cancer cells continue to divide, while other cells age.

For the Greek hero Hercules, the price of immortality was a life of backbreaking labor and virtuous restraint. For the cells of the human body, it seems, the price of immortality is the ravages of cancer. Researchers announced last week that t...

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