CANCER 1 (image)

Rice University

Caption

A schematic shows a single mutation fixation process in a tissue compartment. Normal stem cells are green, and mutated cells are yellow. Rice University researchers used a discrete-state stochastic model to see how cancer-leaning mutations affected the likelihood of cells turning tissue into a tumor, and how well the model correlates with widely used calculations of cancer lifetime risks.

Credit

Hamid Teimouri/Rice University

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