Worms, flies and humans: how we are related

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Worms, flies and humans: how we are related

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/worms-flies-humans-related-200524221.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/AcgDm8HRUdxG1QxZTa30nw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0ac725c85d4d817b9b2d6c7ce3f7796e486a99a9.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A woman holds a card showing the human genome, May 25, 1998, in Paris" align="left" title="A woman holds a card showing the human genome, May 25, 1998, in Paris" border="0" /></a>Biologists on Wednesday said the genetic machinery of humans, fruit flies and roundworms was similar in many surprising ways, a discovery that could help basic research into disease. A consortium of more than 200 scientists compared the genome of modern man with that of two creatures widely studied in the lab -- the fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster) and a tiny creature called roundworm (Caenorhabditis elegans). &quot;When we look at flies or worms, it is difficult to believe that humans have anything in common with them,&quot; said Mark Gerstein, a professor of biomedical informatics at Yale University.</p><br clear="all"/>

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