{"id":33189,"date":"2011-03-27T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-mere-existence-of-whales-the-scientists-answer-your-questions-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:53","slug":"the-mere-existence-of-whales-the-scientists-answer-your-questions-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-mere-existence-of-whales-the-scientists-answer-your-questions-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"The Mere Existence of Whales: The Scientists Answer Your Questions | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/22828_Blue-Whale-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Recently I <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2011\/02\/28\/the-mere-existence-of-whales\/\">blogged<\/a> about how the mere existence of whales might be an important clue to treating cancer. That post has drawn many readers, and many questions in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2011\/02\/28\/the-mere-existence-of-whales\/#comment-53460\">comment thread<\/a>.<\/p><p>Happily, the authors of the review I described&ndash;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maleylab.surgery.ucsf.edu\/people---future\/principal-investigators\/full-bios\/carlo-c-maley,-phd.aspx\">Carlo Maley<\/a> of the University of California, San Francisco, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/gcb\/students.shtml\">Aleah Caulin<\/a> of the University of Pennsylvania&ndash;have joined the thread. They&rsquo;ve&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2011\/02\/28\/the-mere-existence-of-whales\/#comment-55063\">answered<\/a> the first set of reader questions and promise to come back to respond to the rest. Further proof of the majesty of blogs&hellip;<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CaA6rcy5Z7ZKncoQde_b9OO3NLc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/22828_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CaA6rcy5Z7ZKncoQde_b9OO3NLc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/22828_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49a92_SUbw0uwZlaA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49a92_8c5sYvc7Vzs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I blogged about how the mere existence of whales might be an important clue to treating cancer. That post has drawn many readers, and many questions in the comment thread.Happily, the authors of the review I described&ndash;Carlo Maley of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-mere-existence-of-whales-the-scientists-answer-your-questions-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}