Aster Witvliet If you have ever seen an image of the chromosomes (also known as a karyotype) inside a cancer cell, you know that their genetic material can get mixed around to end up looking like a child’s arts and crafts project. A part of chromosome 3 might suddenly be fused to chromosome 14, or chromosome 4 might have acquired a piece of chromosome 5 in the middle. One of the hallmarks of cancer is genomic instability, meaning that cancer cells accumulate DNA mutations and other defects … [Lees meer...]