Cancer in Microgravity

Joshua Chu and others have shown that microgravity hinders the cancer cell.

This is not surprising being that a cell needs to anchor itself before it can pull apart its chromosomes. Unable to pull apart the chromosomes, a cancer cell would then stop dividing or, thanks to numerous checkpoints, would not even start the process.

I still haven't determined definitively whether the CRF's are the molecules anchoring the cell. I don't think they are because prior to multicellularity, animal cells still needed to anchor themselves prior to cell division and would have cell surface molecules specifically for that purpose. I don't know of any free-swimming unicellular animals that do not require anchoring in order to reproduce. The free-swimming yeast cell has a rigid cellulose wall with which to anchor its microtubules.

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