Texas A&M University's James Womack and his collaborators at Seoul National University in South Korea found something unexpected when analyzing the sequences genomes of 62 White Leghorn chickens and 53 Cornish chickens, says the International Science Times' Chelsea Whyte. They found two genetic variants of NK-lysin — which the animals produce to fight off bacterial and other diseases — that seem to fight cancer.
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