This pet gecko could help scientists unlock the secrets of cancer
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University of Nottingham-led researchers identified that lemon frost leopard geckos, which naturally develop aggressive tumors in about 80% of individuals, share key genetic changes and biological pathways with human cancers, offering a rare natural animal model to study how tumors form and spread without artificial induction.
Model development potential; clinical applications remain years away.
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