5. Imagine that researchers have discovered a new chemotherapy ..?
5. Imagine that researchers have discovered a new chemotherapy agent that disrupts microtubules in cancerous cells but leaves normal cells unaffected. What effect(s) would this agent have on cancer cells?
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Disrupting microtubules in malignant cells undergoing mitosis would have the effect of cellular death for both daughter cells. Any malignant cell trying to divide when this drug was present in sufficient amounts would be killed. Making this effect selective for only malignant cells and not normally dividing cells - that would be a neat trick.
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