It has long been known that loss of a key tumor suppressor gene, such as p53, is necessary, but not sufficient, for spontaneous cellular immortalization. Therefore, there must be additional ...

Immortalization of cells is a necessary step in the development of cancer, and scientists think that the main cause is turning on an enzyme -- telomerase -- that lengthens chromosomal telomeres ...

The cells could greatly facilitate the examination of cell immortalization as it actually occurs during cancer progression. Every day, some of your cells stop dividing, and that's a good thing.

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death, by John Gray, Allen ...

Man’s dream of immortality is a foolish, sinister nightmare, argues this gloomy, tendentious meditation on scientific hubris. Gray (Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern), a professor of ...

These cells are typically derived from a single original cell and go through a process known as immortalization, which allows them to be grown and divided indefinitely under controlled conditions ...