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Maybe that's the ticket? The cancer resistance is something that allows the axolotl to also keep regrowing limbs around in the genome?
by mattnewton 10y ago
Maybe that's the ticket? The cancer resistance is something that allows the axolotl to also keep regrowing limbs around in the genome?
- dharma1 10y agoThere are also many animals who are long living, and immune to cancer (to varying degrees). Naked mole rats live up to 30 years and almost never get cancer (only one case formally verified so far). Elephants have many more cells than us, and live to almost the same age, but only have a 5% chance of getting cancer, vs 10%-25% in humans. Lions have a 2% chance of getting cancer.
- lordnacho 10y agoOut of curiosity, how do we know the cancer rates of various animals? Someone would have had to examine a lot dead animals of various species to figure this out.