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To: BCW

Cancer virus? I thought cancer was undiffentiated cells growing out of control. What does a virus have to do with that?


139 posted on 07/17/2013 1:57:00 PM PDT by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: ez

Viruses work by hijacking a cell’s machinery to trick the cell into using it’s metabolic pathways to make more viruses. Sometimes, with some viruses, that hijacking of the cell’s metabolic pathways causes the cell to become malignant.


144 posted on 07/17/2013 2:14:00 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: ez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus

175 posted on 07/17/2013 5:48:30 PM PDT by BCW (Book - http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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