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The Cure for Colon Cancer that was Killed by Pollution
Hard to keep track of all of the species that have gone extinct just in the span of our lives. Many of these were small, silent extinctions, like a tiny polyp that was discovered in an undersea cave in the south pacific. Researchers found in laboratory tests that it was 100% lethal to colon cancer cells.
They went back to the cave to get more polyps only to find that they had all succumbed to pollution! The scientist who did the research still has the molecular “blueprint” for the chemical, but he has not been able to replicate it. “the components just will not fit together like the original.” That was the cure for colon cancer that was killed by pollution. “tiny” extinctions matter just as much as “huge” ones. Extinction is generally considered to be forever, even if some scientists are dreaming of resurrecting the wooly mammoth. That probably would not cure cancer, but we have to try to curtail pollution! – Jack Hayes, Portland Maine
The Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA), San Diego Zoo Global and WCS’s Bronx Zoo announced today that working in conjunction with Changsha Zoo, Suzhou Zoo and the China Zoo Association, a female Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei)—potentially the last female of her species—has been artificially inseminated. The procedure, which brought together top scientists from China, Australia and the United States, provides a ray of hope in a continuing effort to save the world’s most endangered turtle
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