1. How elephants beat cancer
- Author
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Gaughran, Stephen J, Pless, Evlyn, and Stearns, Stephen C
- Subjects
0301 basic medicine ,endocrine system diseases ,Hyrax ,QH301-705.5 ,Science ,Physiology ,Biology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,African elephant ,03 medical and health sciences ,stomatognathic system ,Asian elephant ,biology.animal ,armadillo ,Biology (General) ,neoplasms ,Evolutionary Biology ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Ecology ,General Neuroscience ,Cell Biology ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,hyrax ,030104 developmental biology ,Genomics and Evolutionary Biology ,Medicine ,Other ,Insight ,aardvark - Abstract
Elephants have significantly reduced their risk of cancer by duplicating an important gene called TP53.
- Published
- 2016