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Cancer biology

the proposal by Cairns that stem cells keep their original DNA strands at each division, passing new, error-prone copies to their daughters.

In cancer biology, immortal strand hypothesis refers to the proposal by Cairns that stem cells keep their original DNA strands at each division, passing new, error-prone copies to their daughters. This meaning comes from Cairns (1975) in Nature.[1]

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References

Cairns, J. (1975). Mutation selection and the natural history of cancer. Nature, 255(5505), 197-200. https://doi.org/10.1038/255197a0

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