The wolves are exposed to cancer-causing radiation as they roam the wastelands of the abandoned city - with researchers finding part of their genetic information seems resilient to increased risk of the disease.
Somehow this article is non-existent. It just tells you that a team of researchers put collars on the wolves to measure the radiation levels they are exposed to. They found they are pretty high. 6 times the allowed maximum level for humans. But so far they only want to look into how this affects their cancer rates, and how they protect themselves against cancer. There is nothing yet to assume they have developed a resistance, let alone a biological, cellular or genetic mechanism. So… I mean I guess, but so far it is just plans to look into something.
Dr Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals’ genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.
Sounds like more than just started monitoring them
I tried to find a publication that would at least show a heatmap (but maybe that’s why these articles are pushed now, maybe the new paper will come.out soon?) of relative gene expression changes. I haven’t found any papers by Love mentioning anything other than radiation measurement (which is also an important field of study and is in no way less of an impressive work). “Altered immune systems” is very, very vague, and specific parts of the genome being modified reads like “oncogenes have mutated”, which wouldn’t be a surprise or shocker.
I want to be clear that I couldn’t find the paper that the article seems to talk about (I couldn’t find any that would mention genetics), that Covid and the war in Ukraine (mandatory Fuck Putin) have obviously slowed down research, and that any kind of doubt I have is absolutely not about the group of scientists doing important and valuable work - just the article’s presentation is very empty and saying little to nothing.
“They got a lot of radiation exposure” “genes that are connected with cancer mutated”, “Wolves don’t get cancer” is not too shocking of a finding and almost to be expected. The devil must be in the details. I’m just disappointed in the article.
Somehow this article is non-existent. It just tells you that a team of researchers put collars on the wolves to measure the radiation levels they are exposed to. They found they are pretty high. 6 times the allowed maximum level for humans. But so far they only want to look into how this affects their cancer rates, and how they protect themselves against cancer. There is nothing yet to assume they have developed a resistance, let alone a biological, cellular or genetic mechanism. So… I mean I guess, but so far it is just plans to look into something.
Sounds like more than just started monitoring them
I tried to find a publication that would at least show a heatmap (but maybe that’s why these articles are pushed now, maybe the new paper will come.out soon?) of relative gene expression changes. I haven’t found any papers by Love mentioning anything other than radiation measurement (which is also an important field of study and is in no way less of an impressive work). “Altered immune systems” is very, very vague, and specific parts of the genome being modified reads like “oncogenes have mutated”, which wouldn’t be a surprise or shocker.
I want to be clear that I couldn’t find the paper that the article seems to talk about (I couldn’t find any that would mention genetics), that Covid and the war in Ukraine (mandatory Fuck Putin) have obviously slowed down research, and that any kind of doubt I have is absolutely not about the group of scientists doing important and valuable work - just the article’s presentation is very empty and saying little to nothing.
“They got a lot of radiation exposure” “genes that are connected with cancer mutated”, “Wolves don’t get cancer” is not too shocking of a finding and almost to be expected. The devil must be in the details. I’m just disappointed in the article.