February 2012
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Why we don't double in size daily
So someone at school questioned why, if our cells are dividing constantly, we dont split in half/double up etc. And the reason is that cells die. In the average human, 50-70 billion cells die each day. In Apoptosis, one form of programmed cell death, biochemical events can morph cells and cause their death. If the process (apoptosis) is insufficient, it that which causes cancer. Necrosis is the...
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