Cells with Mutations Don't Always Win (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Cells with Mutations Don't Always Win (2 of 4)

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Small mutant clones compete against a majority of normal cells within the intestine. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 22 Nov., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Louis Vermeulen at Cancer Research UK in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled "Defining Stem Cell Dynamics in Models of Intestinal Tumor Initiation."

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[Image courtesy of Dr. Anna M. Nicholson, Cancer Research UK &#8211 Cambridge Institute]

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