You now understand enough about the nature of life and cells to be on the selection committe to decide who will receive the next Nobel Prizes. Medical researchers are attempting to explain some of the most devastating diseases by understanding what goes wrong at the cellular level. Select one of these diseases and use the Internet to discover what research is being done. Prepare a report with your findings for presentation to the Nobel Committee considering selections for the Nobel Prize in medicine. Include the discoveries that you think will be most likely to result in cures and, if possible, the names of the researchers most responsible for this knowledge.
Cancer is an uncontrolled cell division.
Often cancerous cells are recognized by the body's immune system and destroyed. When the immune systems fails to do this adequately, cancer develops. AIDS is caused by a virus. To infect a cell the virus must be able to enter and reproduce. AIDS only infects certain cell in certain kinds of organisms.