international group of scientists completed the whole-genome analysis of the devils, which is published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists had to work quickly because "this species didn't have time," says Vanessa Hayes, a professor of genomic medicine with the J.
Devil DNAThe researchers, led by Webb Miller and Stephan Schuster at Pennsylvania State University and Vanessa Hayes, now at the J. Craig Venter Institute, deciphered the full genetic blueprints, known as genomes, for two devils infected by the cancer. From these genetic sequences, they select