Investigation 001
What the Slide Cannot Say
Three parasites cause cancer. Nobody is checking for a fourth.
Flukes & tapeworms
Granulin (Ov-GRN-1)
A growth factor the liver fluke secretes into the bile duct, close kin to a human one. Knock the fluke's gene out with CRISPR and the hamsters that carry it get less scarring and less cancer.
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