• @[email protected]
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    1210 months ago

    You’d think it’d be the opposite? “The wolves who were most resistant to cancer were the ones who passed on their genetics” seems like a pretty easy thing to understand

    • neuropean
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      210 months ago

      The mention genetic changes, but didn’t mention any gene names. I would have been interested to see something like TP53 duplications but there’s no way enough time would have passed for that to occur. It’s not super clear whether the population changes reflect a bottleneck or specific, advantageous mutations to cancer resistance.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        You’d want to look at the actual paper or at least a more science focused report on it for information like that.

        • neuropean
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          110 months ago

          I would except it doesn’t appear to be published yet, the article mentions the data was from a conference presentation.