Scientists can decipher the genetic properties of sharks. This knowledge can be used, among other things, for the treatment for cancer.
That’s what Mahmood Shivji, director of the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center, told Reuters Monday .
The scientists have detected numerous genetic traits that explain the evolutionary success of the shark.
That knowledge can come in handy in human medicine. Among other things, the fight against cancer and other age-related diseases that are the result of the genetic composition of the human being can thus be proved a service.
