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by billiallards 1215 days ago
As I understand it, the wrong combination of tumor suppressant/promoter genes getting switched off/on gives you cancer.

Exposure to some things can cause more mutations or hinder your body's error-correction systems, sometimes to extreme degrees. It is a numbers game, though.

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CRISPR needs to hurry up and roll out ECC for genes...