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scrangos t1_j0bevhu wrote
Reply to comment by Alpacaofvengeance in Will my kids inherit the genetic mutations that I aquire during my lifetime? by RedditScoutBoy
Ohh, interesting, I wasn't aware that eggs and possibly sperm even were able to replicate on their own, as they don't even have that as part of their regular function.
scrangos t1_j0az9ao wrote
Reply to comment by aecarol1 in Will my kids inherit the genetic mutations that I aquire during my lifetime? by RedditScoutBoy
Does that mean the inverse is also true? a mutation on an egg or sperm (not ovaries or testes) will never affect the parent?
scrangos t1_iw4i78s wrote
Reply to comment by Suricata_906 in How do medical researchers obtain lab animals with diseases like specific forms of cancer which arise spontaneously? Do they raise thousands of apes and hope some eventually develop the disease? by userbrn1
Yeah that makes sense. Are those immortal cancer cells that have been used for a long time also been drifting genetically? Has there been a track record of how they've changed over time?
scrangos t1_iw3z136 wrote
Reply to comment by Chiperoni in How do medical researchers obtain lab animals with diseases like specific forms of cancer which arise spontaneously? Do they raise thousands of apes and hope some eventually develop the disease? by userbrn1
I've been meaning to ask something about this, isn't cancer prone to further mutations? When you try to expand it, wouldn't it end up changing sometimes?
scrangos t1_jdxyicp wrote
Reply to comment by etherified in Scientists discover how cancer cells evade immune system by BousWakebo
There was another super interesting one where one cancer cell hides inside another another cancer cell using it as armor to survive the killer t-cell attacks as those don't penetrate deep enough to kill them both. (the outer one does die tho) Once signs of the killer t-cells are gone then inner ones come out and resume operations.