Scientists Study Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer
- 9 years ago
A recent study has found that elephants have a low rate of cancer despite their massive number of cells because they have 20 times the number of cancer-fighting TP53 genes as humans.
Cancer researchers are finding inspiration from a surprising animal.
A recent study describes the largely effective mechanisms that elephants have in order to fight off the disease which is caused by the replication of mutated cells.
What interested scientists is the paradox that elephants are large animals that undergo innumerable cell divisions during their decades-long lives, but less than five percent of their captive members get cancer.
The research team decided to
Cancer researchers are finding inspiration from a surprising animal.
A recent study describes the largely effective mechanisms that elephants have in order to fight off the disease which is caused by the replication of mutated cells.
What interested scientists is the paradox that elephants are large animals that undergo innumerable cell divisions during their decades-long lives, but less than five percent of their captive members get cancer.
The research team decided to