Antiproliferative and pro-apoptotic effects have been shown in colon cells as well.

Scientists strongly suspect that in its normal, healthy state, the gene helps block the unruly growth of colon cells.

Others may develop spontaneous mutations in their colon cells as a result of exposure to carcinogens, radiation, or even fatty food.

He has unraveled the sequence of genetic errors accumulated by colon cells as they grow into cancers.

A16 Scientists isolated a crucial gene that seems to be the first to go awry when a colon cell begins to form cancer.

Without butyrates for energy, colon cells undergo autophagy (self digestion) and die.

Dr. Vogelstein is widely known for having unraveled the series of genetic changes by which a colon cell becomes cancerous.

The patient was a teenaged girl with multiple infestations of colon cells in her liver.

Scientists have discovered a gene that seems to be the first to go awry when a colon cell begins the long spin toward cancer.

Researchers could simply examine colon cells shed in the stool or the blood for evidence of the telltale mutation.