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Cancer Suppression: Lessons from Pachyderms (2019)

>> May 12, 2019

The segment below is an updated version of a story originally published at an earlier date – Elephant DNA: The Secret to Cancer Suppression? (2017 version). Every day our DNA mutates hundreds of thousands, if not millions of times. Mutations which …

Elephant DNA: The Secret to Cancer Suppression? (2017)

>> May 14, 2017

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 …