Cancer answers?

June 30, 2011

AUSTRALIAN researcher Dr Vanessa Hays, in collaboration with Penn State University and her new colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute, has successfully mapped genetic blueprint of the Tasmanian Devil genome (including cancer-associated genes), a move which is hoped will lead to answers about adult and childhood cancer. Using DNA sequencing, Hayes was able to identify 139 target genes that are potentially associated with cancer in the Tasmanian Devil and may also be relevant in human cancers. Surprising results of the research also revealed that the Devil Facial Tumour Disease which is pushing the creatures to the brink of extinction is not the result of a virus, but rather cancer cells transferred from animal to animal.

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