| Wageningen nematologist Dr. Jan Kammenga expects to be a step nearer to being able to predict cancer in humans in a few years’ time. Thanks to the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. At the beginning of this year, Kammenga received three million euros from the European Union to work with four partner institutions to identify the role of genetic variation in the formation of cancer. This is unusual: a nematologist who bags an EU project in the field of human health, especially considering that only five out of 150 project proposals were accepted. (» Read more...) |