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Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?

  • Written by Beata Ujvari, Senior Research Fellow in Evolutionary Ecology, Deakin University
imageCancer's development and progression represent an evolutionary process.from shutterstock.com

Essential organs tasked with keeping us alive and reproducing – such as the heart, brain or uterus – may have evolved better protection against cancer than larger and paired organs, we have proposed.

In an article published today in the journal Tr...

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