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  • For example, in cancer that had spread from the pancreas to the lung, Campbell found that a gene called myc had been mutated.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Furthermore, leukemic malignancies were forced through integration of fusion-genes that mimic chromosomal alterations, such as myc-IgH

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Silke H. Raffegerst et al. 2009

  • It is possible now to produce a stem cell from almost any other human cell instead of using embryos as needed previously, albeit the risk of tumorigenesis due to c-myc and retroviral gene transfer remains to be determined.

    Think Progress » Poll: Large Number Of Texans Doubt The Theory Of Evolution, Believe In Human-Dinosaur Coexistence 2010

  • This man who got this country into so myc debt and other troubles wants the AMericans to give credit to ANYTHING he has to say?

    Bush takes aim at Obama policies 2009

  • The mouse embodied the maturity of cancer genetics: scientists had created real, living tumors not just abstract, etiolated foci in petri dishes by artificially manipulating two genes, ras and myc, in an animal.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Rapid cellular proliferation, or the insensitivity to growth-arresting signals, or tumor angiogenesis, can all largely be explained by aberrantly activated and inactivated pathways such as ras, Rb, or myc in cancer cells.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Even so, as in myc constituency it's simplay Labour or Conservative, I'll vote Conservative.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • If myc was permanently activated in the embryo, the embryo turned into a ball of overproliferating cells, then involuted and died through unknown mechanisms.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • To test the roles of other oncogenes and environmental stimuli, Leder created a second OncoMouse, in which two activated proto-oncogenes, ras and myc, were engineered into the chromosome and expressed in breast cells.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Many of the genes and pathways that enabled each of these six behaviors had concretely been identified—ras, myc, Rb, to name just a few.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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