Every day Quote by Nick Lane

The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them.…

— H. Robert Horvitz

“When cells are no longer needed, they die with what can only be called great dignity. They take down all the struts and buttresses…

— Bill Bryson

When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is…

— Neil Shubin

“That this seemingly simple mechanism—cell growth without barriers—can lie at the heart of this grotesque and multifaceted illness is a testament to the unfathomable…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell. This growth is unleashed by mutations—changes in DNA…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides…

— George Wald

“Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a breakdown in…

— Dr. Milton Helpern

“The (cancer) cells, technically speaking, are immortals. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell…

— Mark Walport

No more let life divide what death can join together.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells…

— Alexis Carrel

“Indeed, if not told to live -- if not given some kind of active instruction from another cell -- cells automatically kill themselves. Cells…

— Bill Bryson