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If we aren’t careful, we could miss the chance to learn cancer-fighting secrets from threatened whales and elephants

Doug Johnson | 
The loss of vulnerable mammals means scientists could miss out on useful quirks in their genetics ...
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‘Zombie gene’ could explain why elephants rarely get cancer

Maya Wei-Haas | 
[B]igger animals, which have more cells, should have greater occurrences of cancer. By that reasoning, elephants, with hundreds of times ...
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Elephants rarely get cancer. Can humans borrow their genetic strategies?

David Kohn | 
Elephants have 100 times as many cells as humans. But they seldom get cancer. This is surprising, because cancer is ...
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Can the evolution of elephants show us how to treat, prevent cancer?

Joshua Schiffman, Lisa Abegglen | 
Elephants have had 55 million years to figure out how to resist cancer. An analysis shows that elephants express many ...
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