Aneuploidy: cancer's fatal flaw?

Is carcinogenesis a form of speciation?

Since cancers have individual clonal karyotypes, are immortal and evolve from normal cells treated by carcinogens only after exceedingly long latencies of many months to decades-we deduce that carcinogenesis may be a form of speciation. This theory proposes that carcinogens initiate carcinogenesis by causing aneuploidy, i.e., losses or gains of chromosomes. Aneuploidy destabilizes the karyotype...

The Derivation of the Categorical Imperative: Kant's Correction for a Fatal Flaw

Evidence for numerical abilities in young infants: a fatal flaw?

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The One Fatal Flaw in Anselm’s Argument

Anselm’s Ontological Argument fails, but not for any of the various reasons commonly adduced. In particular, its failure has nothing to do with violating deep Kantian principles by treating ‘exists’ as a predicate or making reference to ‘Meinongian’ entities. Its one fatal flaw, so far from being metaphysically deep, is in fact logically shallow, deriving from a subtle scope ambiguity in Anselm...

Level set segmentation method in cancer's cells images

For early detection in cancer, it is necessary that cells be monitored on time. One of the first steps in the monitoring process is segmenting the cancer's cells. In this paper, we focused on the level set method and compared with snake active contour that use in image segmentation. Level set method is a fast and accurate approach that can be used in segmentation and reduce human interaction as...