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proto-oncogenes

n. (proto-oncogene English)

Usage examples of "proto-oncogenes".

It's an appropriate name, because the DNA in can­cer cells is different from the stuff in normal body cells, in that the harmless proto-oncogenes have been transformed into new, malignant oncogenes.

Colette went ahead with therapy to repair Jack's documented genetic defects, the ones that were guaranteed to be harmful, knowing that there was an off chance that the proto-oncogenes might be triggered.

Jack was often in considera­ble pain, although he never let it daunt him, and he stead­fastly maintained that pain, like the paradoxical proto-oncogenes, would not have evolved in us and re­mained a part of the higher animal condition for so long unless it had more than a fleeting, avoidance-factor/signal-factor value.