Intercellular competition and levels of development: The plasticity of inevitability [Biological Sciences]

Nelson and Masel (1) present a general mathematical model that describes effects of somatic cell changes on aging bounded by juxtaposed loss of cellular vigor and uncontrolled cell growth. The formulation reflects observations on a wide range of multicellular organisms, from Caenorhabditis elegans to Homo sapiens, incorporating the Picard–Lindelöf and...

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