What is the Connection Between Worms and Cancer?

[Pattielli]

It is just not out of my interest, which is why my question is present here, what size does it has ?

Thank you very much,

 

[iansmith]

Which worm do you want? there http://www.howe.k12.ok.us/~jimaskew/bworm.htm

For whole genome data you can always visit the
NCBI genome website

 

[Monique]

Depends on the worm you are looking at. Caenorhabditis elegans is a worm used as a model organism in labs, its 97-million base genome was sequenced (compared to the 3-billion bases in the human genome) I'm not sure how many genes are encoded in that though.

 

[Monique]

From iansmith's link: 20,443 genes for C. elegans compared to about 30,000 (?) genes in H. sapiens.

 

[Pattielli]

Thank iansmith very much for your help (this thread and that Worms thread too)

 

[Pattielli]

Depends on the worm you are looking at. Caenorhabditis elegans is a worm used as a model organism in labs, its 97-million base genome was sequenced (compared to the 3-billion bases in the human genome) I'm not sure how many genes are encoded in that though.

:sml: Yes, i am looking for that one...You read it !

 

[Monique]

So why the interest in C. elegans? :)

 

[Pattielli]

First of all, maybe number one reason : They look terrible, they come out a lot after the rain...My friends say they are lovely and easy...
Second, I am interested in cancer which there are lots of patients dying of...
Have you talked to any patient who has cancerous cells ?