How elephants beat cancer

Elife. 2016 Oct 31:5:e21864. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21864.

Abstract

Elephants have significantly reduced their risk of cancer by duplicating an important gene called TP53.

Keywords: African elephant; Asian elephant; aardvark; armadillo; cell biology; evolutionary biology; genomics; hyrax.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Body Size
  • DNA Damage
  • Elephants*
  • Neoplasms*