Cancer answers may be hidden in tumor in the dinosaur jaw

Scientists from Anglia Ruskin (ARU) and Imperial College London examined the volume in the jaw of a dinosaur, as this fossil could provide significant answers to cancer. The fossil belongs to the prehistoric lizard Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a herbivorous reptile that looked like a duck and wandered in present-day Romania about 66-70 million years ago, according to a study published in the journal Biology, the fossil had been discovered here. In 2016, Professor Justin Stebbing, an oncologist at Au, learned about his existence and then the following idea was born: to study the tumor to see if there is a correlation with the suffering cancer. In 2017 an interdisciplinary team was set up -including Dr. Biancastella Cereser from Imperial and Professor Pramodh Chandrasinghe from Sri Lanka- and examined the jaw. Interestingengineering.com wrote that the volume was an aneclava, a benign […]
Source: News Beast

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