{"id":117259,"date":"2020-12-17T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/jawless-lamprey-takes-a-bite-out-of-cancer-gene-evolution"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:26:39","slug":"jawless-lamprey-takes-a-bite-out-of-cancer-gene-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/jawless-lamprey-takes-a-bite-out-of-cancer-gene-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Jawless lamprey takes a bite out of cancer gene evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jawless-lamprey-takes-a-bite-out-of-cancer-gene-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mice, fruit flies and dogs are common creatures of laboratories across the country, valuable to researchers for their genetic proximity to humans. But what about lampreys?<\/p>\n<p>A new Yale School of Public Health study has enlisted this unlikely and slimy ally in the fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By carefully tracing the evolution of a select number of cancer-causing genes in a variety of species, the researchers evaluated which animals are\u2014and are not\u2014effective in gauging how an analog of those genes in humans can lead to cancer. What they found is surprising: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/jawless+fish\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">jawless fish<\/a> such as lampreys share significant similarities in these certain genes compared to humans, while <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fruit+flies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fruit flies<\/a> do not. Their findings, published in the journal <i>Genome Biology and Evolution<\/i>, will help molecular biologists and other scientists as they work to find potential cures to certain cancers, such as lymphoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mice, fruit flies and dogs are common creatures of laboratories across the country, valuable to researchers for their genetic proximity to humans. But what about lampreys? A new Yale School of Public Health study has enlisted this unlikely and slimy ally in the fight against cancer. By carefully tracing the evolution of a select number [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}