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THE investigations of the last thirty years have proved that the cells of the higher vertebrates, under appropriate conditions, are capable of unlimited proliferation, and it is of importance in discussing the problems of experimental carcinogenesis to remember this fact, and to have clear ideas of the characteristic features of the proliferation of new growths, including cancer. This is very necessary because nothing is commoner in the literature of the subject than loose statements that this or that agent confers on the cells powers of unlimited proliferation, which is nonsense, seeing they already possess these powers.
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MURRAY, J. Experimental Production of Malignant Tumours. Nature 132, 156–158 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132156a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132156a0