Chemotherapy targets cells that divide rapidly, such as cancer cells.
Cancer cells tend to divide rapidly and often uncontrollably.
Most cancer drugs work by killing cells that divide rapidly, Dr. Piro said.
Cancer cells copy their contents and divide rapidly; so do newly fertilised eggs.
This can also affect non-tumour cells that divide rapidly, such as bone marrow and hair follicles.
Throat cancer occurs when cells in the organs used for breathing, speaking, and swallowing begin to divide rapidly and abnormally.
Academic researchers say stem cells hold enormous promise, but they are proceeding cautiously with clinical trials because stem cells divide rapidly and can form tumors in laboratory animals.
They've shown that some microRNAs cause normal cells to divide rapidly and form tumors, but they've never demonstrated that microRNAs subsequently cause cancer cells to metastasize, or spread.
Bacteria such as E. coli evolve relatively quickly: they divide rapidly and sloppily, passing on error-filled copies of their genetic information to the next generation.
The terminal bud stimulates the cambium to divide rapidly through the action of two groups of plant hormones: auxins and gibberellins.
During the rapid growth phase of cells in tissue culture, they usually lose the ability to carry out the specialized function characteristic of their organ of origin; for example, if cartilage cells divide rapidly, they no longer synthesize cartilaginous matrix.
