If these locks are picked (for example by oxidative damage to the genes that control them, as discovered by Dr Ames), the result is unconstrained growth-in other words, cancer.

• 如果这些基因锁被解除（例如，艾姆斯博士发现控制这些锁的基因遭到氧化毁坏的情况），后果就是细胞的无限增生，换句话说就是细胞癌变。