Do Elephants Hold The Key To Curing Cancer?
Our experts discuss how we can utilize this information to create cancer-fighting medications.
Huntsman Cancer Institute is an NCI-designated cancer research facility and hospital located on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Intermountain West. (Wikipedia)
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Cancer Suppression: Lessons from Pachyderms (2019)
DNA mutations happen all the time in the body, but the immune system usually detects and deals with them. When the system fails, cancer results. Yet some animals, such as elephants, almost never get cancer, and scientists have learned that the elephant DNA repair system is 20 times more powerful than the human system. Experts explain how they hope to tap …
Elephant DNA: The Secret to Cancer Suppression? (2017)
Some animals, such as elephants, almost never get cancer, and scientists have learned that the elephant DNA repair system is 20 times more powerful than the human system
