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Surprise Study Reveals Even Healthy Humans Are "Riddled" With Mutant Cells
Science Alert ^ | October 22, 2018 | Peter Dockrill

Posted on 10/24/2018 12:50:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If you thought your cell were mostly normal, it might be time to guess again. Your body may in fact be a shrine to colonies of mutant clones.

It's common knowledge that mutations in cells are what give rise to cancer, but far less is known about what gives rise to mutations in the first place.

Now, scientists have discovered even healthy people's tissue can be "riddled" with genetic mutations, to the extent researchers describe as shocking.

"We discovered that by the time an individual reaches middle age, they probably have more mutant than normal cells," says oncologist and cancer researcher Phil Jones from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK.

Jones and his team used genome sequencing techniques to map groups of mutant cells in donated oesophageal tissue from nine deceased individuals aged between 20 to 75 years old at the time of their death.

Because these individuals had no known history of chronic disease and or oesophageal problems, their tissue was considered healthy for the purposes of the study – but as the research team found out, healthy doesn't mean free from colonisation by mutant clone cells.

"Under the microscope, the oesophageal tissue looked completely normal," says Jones.

"After studying the genetics we were shocked to see that the healthy oesophagus was riddled with mutations."

The research follows up a 2015 study by some of the same team that found healthy eyelid skin cells harboured a high number of somatic mutations - the kind we get through cell division as we age, and which aren't passed down to offspring.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: aging; cells; mutations; study
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1 posted on 10/24/2018 12:50:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...

Well, at age 51, I had better adopt children, rather than try to create them.

DANG!


2 posted on 10/24/2018 12:51:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Our genetic integrity has been in decline since Adam and Eve.

Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us all matter and energy tend toward disorder.


3 posted on 10/24/2018 12:54:07 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Isn’t this what cancer cells are? I thought everyone had cancer cells, but they are usually benign.


4 posted on 10/24/2018 12:55:23 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Zombie cells are the worst.


5 posted on 10/24/2018 12:55:43 PM PDT by Leep
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6 posted on 10/24/2018 12:55:59 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Mutant.

Like my neighbor Steve.

Steve! Keep your stinking leaves off my lawn! You mutant, you!


7 posted on 10/24/2018 1:02:56 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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8 posted on 10/24/2018 1:04:44 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’ve heard this for many years. Whether the “mutant” cells cause a problem or not depends on your immune system.


9 posted on 10/24/2018 1:05:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: reasonisfaith

And disorder is gaining velocity, accelerating at an exponential rate.

Soon our descendants will all be deformed, grotesque versions of humanity.

Thank goodness the vast majority of humans have not arrived at this state yet. < /sarcasm >


10 posted on 10/24/2018 1:06:14 PM PDT by alloysteel (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Dude, that’s NOT the spirit. Look at Strom Thurmond. He was fathering kids well past 70. Mick Jagger too. What have they got that you haven’t got?


11 posted on 10/24/2018 1:06:29 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I figure I have some percentage of most maladies present from birth and that it’s when some of them take ascendance, suffering ensues. It would surprise me if anyone has no physical ‘daggers,’ just as I firmly believe everyone has at least one mental hangup of some sort.


12 posted on 10/24/2018 1:16:29 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

so there really are lizard people? /j


13 posted on 10/24/2018 1:21:45 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I have a lot of mutant cells but they Dunt eggfect mE.


14 posted on 10/24/2018 1:36:50 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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LOL!!


15 posted on 10/24/2018 1:37:31 PM PDT by freepertoo (Nora Mayers)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Re: “Whether the “mutant” cells cause a problem or not depends on your immune system.”

Unless your immune system cells have also mutated?

I think we have reached the point - in every scientific field - where research cannot make much progress until we can image molecular processes in real time.


16 posted on 10/24/2018 1:43:38 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That is why the dead are planted as soon as possible. This is hardly a finding for recent knowledge, is it?


17 posted on 10/24/2018 4:56:14 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: reasonisfaith

Bingo!


18 posted on 10/24/2018 5:06:10 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: irishjuggler

An ancestor of mine who fought in the Revolutionary War had 21 children by 3 wives. He died at the age of 78. His youngest child was 4 years old at the time.


19 posted on 10/24/2018 5:07:19 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Three months on a low-radical, high-antioxidant diet, without alcohol, may clean up the sperm remarkably. Celery, asparagus, oatstraw, moringa, are a few suggestions.


20 posted on 10/24/2018 5:09:50 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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