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by jenny_say_qua
2857 days ago
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Elephants have strong cancer resistance relative to their size [0]. In general, larger animals have stronger cancer suppression mechanisms (elephants being even more resistant than their size would suggest) which makes sense given that larger animals have more cells, each of which has an independent probability of getting cancer - if they didn't have stronger cancer resistance, they would get cancer very quickly. I think NMRs are interesting because despite being so small they have high resistance to cancer, which is quite unusual. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4858328/ |
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