Friday, March 31, 2006
Report of Evolution's Death Greatly Exaggerated
"Evolutionary Biology Research Techniques Predict Cancer," reports Science Daily. Apparently, these scientists are unaware that the Discovery Institute has declared evolution a spectacular failure and pronounced it dead... daily for the last ten years.
"Simply put, we took ecology measures of species diversity and translated them into measures of cell diversity within tumors," says Carlo Maley, Ph.D., a researcher at The Wistar Institute. The reserchers found a striking correlation between increased diversity of tumor cells and progression to cancer. For every additional cell variety detected in a tumor, the patient was twice as likely to progress to cancer.
"Simply put, we took ecology measures of species diversity and translated them into measures of cell diversity within tumors," says Carlo Maley, Ph.D., a researcher at The Wistar Institute. The reserchers found a striking correlation between increased diversity of tumor cells and progression to cancer. For every additional cell variety detected in a tumor, the patient was twice as likely to progress to cancer.
