11. With too much of the protein, those cells multiply faster than they should and cause cancer tumors to grow to dangerous levels. 12. A team of American and Italian researchers demonstrated last year that heart muscle cells multiply after a heart attack. 13. Although the cells multiplied by the millions, they could not be transplanted because in the body they would be like a cancer, growing out of control. 14. When tests showed the cancer cells were multiplying, she was prescribed thalidomide. 15. But a defective ribonuclease L can lose this ability, thus allowing cancerous cells to multiply. 16. But an inherited defective ribonuclease L can lose this ability, thus allowing cancerous cells to multiply. 17. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood in which infection-killing white-blood cells multiply at an uncontrolled rate, eventually killing the patient. |