Cancer Cell Simulation by Karakanlud

Karakanlud

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5th May 2015

30th Jul 2015

*update: found a better way to mimic cell interior* Simulates the way cancer cells move around compared to normal cells.

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  sentinal-5 5th May 2015
  @JusticeFighter haha yeah it's almost certainly for fun, but who doesn't like a good hearty schollarly discussion from time to time? (well.. i mean.. a lot of people probably don't.. but i do.. XD learning yey)
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  sentinal-5 5th May 2015
  yeah, it's just regular mutation. the process of evolutionary trial and error. the thing is, after a single cell has arisen that can sustain itsself and divide that cell won't really die out in the tumour because it survives just fine and the new ones won't actually evolve any mechanisms of killing it. the body will just feed them all, sucessful and less so alike.
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  sentinal-5 5th May 2015
  if my estimate is right, this means you'll basically end up with one type of cancer in the tumour (it's very unlikely that multiple surviving mutations will occur in the short time between the apearance of the first cell and death (unless the cause is something like radiation in which case multiple seperate tumours will arise)
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  Karakanlud 5th May 2015
  also, these cells can divide limitlessly. so it's basically mass of cells acting like independent beings. and the evolutionary pressure in this 'pool' is that the fittest cell is the one that can take the most resources from the human body.
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  Karakanlud 5th May 2015
  imo it's because the tumor is kind of an 'evolution pool'. the beings/cells normally mutate, the good 'mutants' live, the bad ones die. the cell's protective mechanisms hold back this process - they repair dna damage, prevent mitosis if mutations are present, or kill te cell, if it's beyond repair. if a cell goes cancerous, many of these mechanisms stop fuctioning. so these cells can mutate, and these mutations are inherited by the next generation of cells.
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  JusticeFighter 5th May 2015
  @sentinal-5: exactly! although the save is probabaly just for fun!
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  sentinal-5 5th May 2015
  @lare290 hahah XD nice "go go cancer dance party!"
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  sentinal-5 5th May 2015
  i mean, sorry for the wall of text. but it's always seemed strange to me. because when i was in biology in school, i was taught that cancer cells don't actually KILL anything; they just grow into tumours and get in the way. and that a cancer tumour only kills you because it stops your body from working purely by being in the way and taking up space that would be needed for other stuff. i never took biology in college, i'm doing physics. but if anybody knows better than me please do say.
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  lare290 5th May 2015
  it just fucks around doing nothing useful, thats why. if you dont do anything at all, you would be bored. so cancer started to dance, but he doesnt want to do any work.
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  sentinal-5 5th May 2015
  can someone please explain to me why the cancer cell is more energetic? surely (this is just me speculating) a cancer cell, which endangers a human body by not doing anything useful at all, therefore limiting the functionality of the organ/s it reproduces in, would actually just sit still (being mutated entropy states it is more likely for it to loose informarion rather than gain it) would be more likely to have a reduced number of mitochondria and be less able to do stuff?