TRACKING OF DISTINCTIVE CELLULAR EVENTS AND USES OF SUCH EVENTS AS BIOLOGICAL MARKERS

摘要

The invention relates to the field of medicine. More particularly, described herein are biological markers associated with phenotypical and/or genotypical alterations in a cell and to methods for assessing mammalian cells. Also described are methods for assessing the condition of a population of cells, methods for assessing carcinogenicity of compounds and methods for quantitatively determine the quality of cell populations.