Cancer immature?

Brona McVittie reports :: February 2009

Sarah Palin might be rather shocked to learn that she has thousands of genes in common with the fruit fly (watch video). Yet for this very reason flies are key to understanding human diseases like cancer. For more than half a century scientists have been using Drosophila melanogaster as a tool to better understand biological development. This work has fuelled many major breakthroughs in cancer research.

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