Sperm may hold key to cancer, chimp study suggests

Reuters ^ | 5-19-05 | Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

[soundandvision]

If only I could convince my wife of this...

[Pharmboy]

PING--And, it would also seem to me that these genes have to do with cell differentiation and growth, something that a rapidly evolving central nervous system would need.

[Dimensio]

So, creationism isn't an option anymore?

Why would it be an "option" to begin with? Moreover, to what "creation" account do you refer?

[mlc9852]

Well, I'm not putting my trust in scientists, that's for sure.

[EGPWS]

Why would it be an "option" to begin with?

Just a misguided though on my part.

Silly me....

[Brilliant]

Chimp study? Now that is one smart chimp!

[EGPWS]

Well, I'm not putting my trust in scientists, that's for sure.

If money is involved why I'll first place my bet on Meteorologists when it comes to predicting weather.

[trebb]

Humans did not descend from monkeys; there was a common monkey-ape-human ancestor, however.

99% of our genes and Chimp genes are the same; this study, however, concentrated on the ones that are in fact different.

Maybe there was a common monkey-ape-human Creator...

Why does having "99% of our genes being the same" automatically lead to an evolutionary schema? Fish and bugs have DNA and we didn't evolve from them. Why would having so much in common not lead to a common Creator?

[Dimensio]

Just a misguided though on my part.

Well, if you have evidence for an alternative explanation, we can hear it out. Until then, biologists will stick with the best explanation for facts that currently exists.

[Dimensio]

Why does having "99% of our genes being the same" automatically lead to an evolutionary schema? Fish and bugs have DNA and we didn't evolve from them. Why would having so much in common not lead to a common Creator?

Well, it's possible that a common Creator made things as they are, and it's just a coincidence or deliberate design that DNA across species gives strong support for the notion of common descent (along with the fossil record), but why should we assume a Creator when the common descent explanation is a better fit for the evidence and requires the invention of no extraneous entities?

[jennyp]

Well, I'm not putting my trust in scientists, that's for sure.

Don't ever get sick.

[Calpernia]

>>>And now that this determination has been made it is time to strategically eliminate the root cause.......

No. It is much more fun to blame them for everything :)

[jennyp]

So, creationism isn't an option anymore?

Why not start a venture capital fund, & only fund biological research that relies on an assumption of creationism? There must be tons of new blockbuster drugs or therapies waiting to be found that evolutionary biologists are ignoring. Money talks, ...

[aposiopetic]

Clark said chimpanzees get cancer, too, but no one has been able to study enough of them in captivity to see if they do so at the same rate and in the same ways as humans do.

So don't just sit there...design the experiment and start collecting data!

[Pharmboy]

Good question. Most experts believe that the last common ancestor between the human line and that of the great apes (gorillas, chimps and orangutangs) was about 6 million years ago.

[Old Professer]

My guess is it would depend on whether the moon was in Aquarius.

[Old Professer]

What then did Darwin suggest in his second book?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If this hypothesis is true, wouldn't you expect that males would be much more prone to malignancies than females?

The article is written so poorly that all I got out of it is that our genes for sperm production and cell regulation are somehow related but different from chimps.

By the way, woman also have copies of the genes for sperm production.

[Misterioso]

Don't ever get sick.

Too late.

[TheForceOfOne]

I saw a documentary on evolution once, I found it very enlightening. :P