When cancer is viewed within this frame, selection still pertains but its exact role and scope can be understood as secondary to a greater imperative of self-referential cells encountering stresses and reacting to them according to their limits.
In plants, the cell walls form an interconnecting framework that glues all cells together and that has to bear all encountered stresses [ 3].
However, during transmission through the food chain it encounters stresses, such as changes in temperature, exposure to aerobic conditions, and lack of nutrients.
We therefore reasoned that cells of precancerous lesions likely encountered stresses, which either accelerated telomere erosion or activated mechanisms that trigger telomere dysfunction.
Then he begins his long march to the refugee camp where he encounters stressed, distracted Carole (Bejo) who offers the starving boy some of her sandwich.
When humans encounter stress, they will, by instinct, choose "fight or flight" -- or so goes the accepted wisdom.
Some bacteria, during their growth period, encounter stress factors in their natural environments, such as limitation in growth bioavailability, heat shock, heavy metal, etc.
Have you updated your resume and considered sending it out?" Next time you encounter stress, think about it: Do you want to perpetuate it or be the antidote?
In the wild, flies encounter stress from many sources, but also receive a broad spectrum of complementary enrichment.
It is known that the abundance of RP mRNAs rapidly decreases when yeast cells encounter stress situations [ 50, 51].
But when these same individuals encounter stress, the apomixis program is suppressed, and sexual reproduction, through the formation of quiescent and stress-tolerant eggs, occurs [ 33].
