Longer lived animals have cancer suppression genes

Montero · Dec 2, 2020

What it said in the title

Elephants did not evolve to become huge animals until after they turned a bit of genetic junk into a unique defense against inevitable tumors.

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DexterKUlrich · Oct 25, 2022

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

Foxbat · Oct 26, 2022

Fascinating stuff.
There’s a very interesting point made in the article about how cancer suppression in this way might affect fertility.

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