"The new theory predicts that as cancer progresses through more and more malignant stages, it will express genes that are more deeply conserved among multicellular organisms, and so are in some sense more ancient."
The good news is that we already have that data! From 2005.
And the story, is, of course that it's waaay more complicated than that.
For that matter, we know a lot of cancers (e.g. CML) come about in no small part due to fusion proteins - which would be if anything, the creation of a novel protein, not a gene that is 'deeply conserved'.
The good news is that we already have that data! From 2005.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15920528
And the story, is, of course that it's waaay more complicated than that.
For that matter, we know a lot of cancers (e.g. CML) come about in no small part due to fusion proteins - which would be if anything, the creation of a novel protein, not a gene that is 'deeply conserved'.