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Clams are the main ingredient in New England’s thick soup called chowder, but a team of international scientists is proving there’s more to the region’s famous sea animals than how they taste with boiled potatoes in a buttery broth.

The scientists, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner, have been studying the common surf clams at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, hoping their work can help reveal secrets of how human diseases occur.

The clam eggs are the key. They give scientists an extraordinary look at a process that’s fundamental to living organisms, from baker’s yeast to humans: cell division. When things go wrong in cell division, it can cause disease.

If researchers in the so-called ‘Clam Project’ can learn enough about clam genes to link them to human genes, their observations of normal and abnormal clam cell division can be compared with observations of cell division in humans. That’s a vital first step in using the clam to discover the root causes of baffling human ailments, including cancer, muscular dystrophy, premature aging and diabetes.

Surf clams have been studied for at least 75 years. Not only is cell replication in a surf clam egg unusually easy to observe, but the process also happens extremely quickly-occurring every 20 to 30 minutes. Just a few clams can provide billions of eggs and, perhaps most significantly, the eggs move through cell replication at the same time, as if triggered simultaneously. This allows researchers to observe cell replication more easily at different stages, and to try to learn which proteins and molecules play what roles in the process.