Other scientists and medical researchers might find some areas of interest to pursue?
A. Yes. The standard method to screen an anti-cancer drug is using mice on which we graft the human cancer, but these so-called immune-deficient mice are pretty expensive. Testing using mice takes at least a month, in some cases several months. Recently we developed an inexpensive and quick drug screening system using a small worm called a nematode, about 1mm long. This worm has the same enzyme PAK which causes this type of cancer. When you insert GFP (green fluorescent protein) from jellyfish and a special heat shock gene and treat them with heat, a green florescence shows under the microscope.
