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To: WhiskeyX

Recently saw a story about Elephants not developing it too and are being studied at a Ele-Retirement home in Fl
For them it may be an all leafy green diet?


5 posted on 11/01/2015 3:58:05 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: CGASMIA68

This article comments on how elephants are equipped with so many more copies of a cancer preventing mechanism than Humans.


6 posted on 11/01/2015 4:06:45 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: CGASMIA68

See the part of the article where it says:

Part of the explanation came in October 2015. The elephant genome turned out to contain a lot of copies of a known cancer-fighting gene. Known as p53, it is a tumour suppressor. Most mammals have it, including humans, but we only have one copy whereas elephants have 20.


9 posted on 11/01/2015 4:15:17 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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