Using mummy, Israeli researchers find pre-modern genetic predisposition to cancer
Tel Aviv University researchers identify defective gene linked to colon cancer in an 18th-century Hungarian mummy.
One of the mummies found it the Vác Mummy Collection Courtesy of Dr. Ildiko Pap, Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY)ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH