Scientists discover why elephants rarely get cancer: Tumor-fighting genes

According to everything we know about cancer, elephants should be hit hard by the disease. Cancer is a disease of aging, and elephants can live up to 70 years. Over the course of a life that long, elephants grow a lot – burgeoning from 200-pound babies to 12,000-pound giants.

Posted: 2015-10-08 19:17:00

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