• Question: what cells are most likely to divide; resulting in mutation or a tumor. do you think in 100 years new types of cells will be created.

    Asked by Rudy2.0 to Rob on 22 Jun 2016.
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      Rob Stanley answered on 22 Jun 2016:


      Skin cells and the cells that line your stomach (all called epithelial cells) are some of the fastest to divide. Yes, more divisions means more opportunities for an unwanted mutation to happen.

      Evolution won’t have time to act on us within 100 years, so we won’t have evolved any new cell types. But we might be able to design and produce cells using technology that would be able to do new and interesting things, like treat disease.

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