Elephants have 100 times more cells in their bodies than humans, which should make them far more vulnerable to cancer than we are. But less than 5 percent of elephant deaths are linked to cancer, which researchers credit to the animals’ abundance of cell-suppressing genes -- genes that might represent the next step forward in the fight against cancer.
source:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/elephant-genes-hold-big-hopes-for-cancer-researchers/
source:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/elephant-genes-hold-big-hopes-for-cancer-researchers/
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