The molecules that cover our cells have interacted over the ages with our environment and the diseases that plague us – and in the process shaped our progress
In the summer of 2017, under the brightest stars she’d ever seen, Alison Caldwell sat around a fire singing songs with a small group of fellow UC San Diego graduate students and tribal members of Hadza people, an indigenous hunter-gatherer group in T
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Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a heart attack, which amounts to about
805,000 heart attacks every year. Of course, this statistic applies only to humans. But what about other animals do they also experience this debilitating and potentially deadly condition?
For the most part, other animals don t get heart attacks not even one of our closest living relatives,
Pan troglodytes). Nonhuman animals experience other cardiac problems, but as far as scientists know, heart attacks are rare in other creatures. In general, animals don t naturally die from the typical heart attack that you see where you clog up the coronary arteries in humans, Philip Gordts, an assistant professor who studies
This is due to the presence of a dysfunctional gene that is still present in some people
Researchers have now developed a urine test that can detect the presence of this protein
Humans seem to be more prone to developing carcinomas (cancers starting in the skin or tissue lining organs), in comparison to our closest evolutionary relatives – chimpanzees.
We are prone to developing advanced carcinomas even without known risk factors such as smoking and genetic predisposition being present.
Researchers at the University of California School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center conducted a study aimed at explaining why this may be the case.
Evolution May Be to Blame for High Risk of Advanced Cancers in Humans
Compared to chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary cousins, humans are particularly prone to developing advanced carcinomas the type of tumors that include prostate, breast, lung and colorectal cancers even in the absence of known risk factors, such as genetic predisposition or tobacco use.
A recent study led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center helps explain why. The study, published December 9, 2020 in
FASEB BioAdvances, suggests that an evolutionary genetic mutation unique to humans may be at least partly to blame.