Lemon Frost Leopard Gecko Provides Insight Into Cancer In Non Mammals - Reptiles Magazine
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A striking gecko is helping researchers understand how cancer originates, grows, and spreads through the body. Subscribe to the newsletter! Want the latest science news fresh in your inbox every day? Or every week? Subscribe to the newsletter here! A unique color variant of the leopard gecko appears to be potentially valuable for cancer research. The so-called […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
Lemon Frost Leopard Gecko Provides Insight Into Cancer In Non Mammals - Reptiles Magazine
Researchers are looking at the lemon frost morph of the leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) and how its high propensity for having iridophoromas cancers (more than 80 percent) provides an opportunity to study pigment cell cancers and tumors in non-mammalian vertebrates. The researchers conducted whole genome sequencing on matched tumor and non tumor samples of the lemon frost morph and found that they share what is called a missense mutation …
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