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S01 Survival of the Fittest Cells
"Survival of the fittest cells" (Following post reviews an article published in Nature . This article was part of a screening test for candidature to PhD program (2020) at an Australian University. All the photographs in the post are adopted (without any change) from the original article, unless stated otherwise.) We all have a notion of cellular functioning as being a pre-programmed clockwork activity. We do not think of cells (in multicellular prokaryotic species) as individual players. Latest findings suggest otherwise. And these findings violate the very understanding of how the cellular systems work, and the results are being seen as "radical departure" from the development. One can go through these findings below (and get amazed): 1. When a researcher " switched-on " a cancer-causing gene ( Ras ) in kidney cells, though he was expecting the cancerous cells to proliferate further and render the entire cell mass cancerous, to his surprise, he o...